Virginia updates in category: Toxic Substances

In a story that sounds eerily like the John Grisham book, The Appeal, files released from West Virginia Governor, Joe Manchin's, office reveal that he is in bed with DuPont Company trying to get...

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The Washington Post reported on a British study, in late May, 2008 that new microscopic nanotubes that are being made for a wide variety of consumer products can cause the same kind of damage in the body as asbestos, and its deadly cancer of the lung lining called mesothelioma. These findings were made by well respected British researchers in a recent study of mice and the study is sounding alarms among workplace experts. Nanotubes are increasingly being used in electronic equipment, and sporting goods equipment and other products.

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The Supreme Court has decreased the punitive damage award in the Exxon Valdez disaster from $2.5 billion to $500 million. The Court, however, split on the decision of whether or not punitive...

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Dow Chemical Co. and Rockwell International Corp., two companies that were contractors at the now defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents...

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BP Plc, Chevron Corp., and ten other oil companies have tentatively agreed to pay $423 million to settle lawsuits in seventeen states, including Virginia, due to contamination claims involving the...

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Officials with the Government Accountability Office are criticizing the Bush administration after they changed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviews in a way that will delay scientific...

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is concerned that the tiny nanoparticles used in nanotechnology pose serious health risks for workers employed in the nanotechnology...

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Do you know someone who takes Herbalife products? Herbalife is global nutrition and weight-management company, whose stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. If you know someone who is...

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A new government report, made by the investigative arm of Congress, implies the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is being increasingly influenced by non-scientists. The report also suggests...

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Note: see also Mass Transit category. We have recently been retained on cases involving railroad workers who have developed cancer and other radiation related illness and disease as a result of exposure to radiation and radioactive substances while working for railroads that routinely transported cargo into and out of nuclear weapons facilities while working as railroad engineers, conductors or even as railroad track maintenance workers. In a number of areas of the country, nuclear weapon facilities required all kinds of uranium and radioactive material in order to build the often secret nuclear weapons. It is very common to have the primary source of transport of these materials and byproducts to be by railroad/train.

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A congressional committee is investigating links between the chemical industry and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) expert review panel, to help determine safe levels of a variety of...

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