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New Hampshire is the latest state to file suit against a number of companies, including Dupont and 3M, for their roles in a nationwide drinking water contamination crisis. The lawsuit claims that the polluted water is the result of the

A man who lost his left leg after a garbage truck struck him in March 2015 in downtown Portland will get another chance to argue for an award of noneconomic damages exceeding $500,000. Oregon’s Supreme Court, in a decision announced

Last Thursday, Stag Liuzza and associated counsel Samuel Issacharoff asked the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a ruling that made our clients’ case against Arkema Chemical, a class action. In 2017, Arkema’s Crosby, Texas plant exploded

The Times-Picayune and The Advocate have been honored with a prestigious award from the Society of Environmental Journalists for the newspaper’s series “Polluter’s Paradise,” published last year with the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica. The series won the SEJ’s Kevin Carmody Award

Last year, 212 environmental activists and land defenders were murdered globally, making 2019 the most deadly year for people resisting extractive industries or protecting endangered species, according to Global Witness’ latest annual report. Some of the killings are perpetrated by government

After BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, Paul Montagna was given the job of rushing into the blackened seas to find out how much harm the nation’s biggest oil disaster was doing to the creatures on

Suing is supposedly as American as apple pie. The right to a jury trial in lawsuits is enshrined in the Seventh Amendment. And the portrayal of civil suits is central to American popular culture, from John Grisham’s novels to Judge

A federally funded stimulus program aimed at plugging the growing number of “orphan” oil and gas wells could greatly reduce pollution while giving a much-needed boost to the state’s ailing oil industry, a new report says. As Congress considers a

Since March, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has received more than 150 requests to waive environmental regulations from companies that say they can’t comply because of the pandemic, state records show. Requests came from major oil and gas companies,

Throughout the mid-2000s, the controversial fracking boom in the United States upended the global energy industry. America went from one of the world’s largest importers of foreign oil to the world’s largest producer of natural gas and crude oil over the course of just