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The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Steps Up NRD Enforcement. Is a Comprehensive NRD Program Coming?

A recent decision from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court addressing Pennsylvania's authority and standing to seek NRD may further embolden state officials. The regulated community should be aware of changing NRD landscape in Pennsylvania and work with counsel to manage potential NRD liabilities.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Brief Overview of the Superfund Chemical Excise Tax

As the April column in this series pointed out, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 reinstituted the Superfund chemical excise tax. Somehow, more than a few of our colleagues and clients have formed the expectation that environmental practitioners are the lawyers knowledgeable on this tax. Humoring them, I try here to provide a brief outline of how this tax works.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Wrongful Death Suit Claims Lumber Liquidators Sold Defective Laminate Containing Dangerous Levels of Formaldehyde Gas

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Judge Dismisses Delaware AG Jennings' Suit Over Monsanto PCBs

The state's suit, according to Superior Court Judge Mary Miller Johnston, failed to state claims for both public nuisance and trespassing.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: The Duo Who Kept Monsanto's RoundUp Defense Winning Streak Alive

George Lombardi of Winston & Strawn and Jennifer Lee of Husch Blackwell led a trial team that won a defense verdict in state court last week in a case where an Oregon man claimed the herbicide caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, marking Monsanto's fourth straight win in Roundup cases.
5 minute read

Law.com

US Supreme Court Declines to Review Roundup Petition, Ensuring More Trials

Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ensures that court battles will continue over Monsanto's Roundup, which lawsuits contend causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Controlling PFAS and Other Emerging Contaminants

Even though the science demonstrating the hazards posed by these substances is solidly grounded, our legal system strains to limit the harms, and to compensate injured parties.
7 minute read

Law.com

PCB Verdicts Pile Up Against Monsanto as Plaintiffs Lawyer Says Juries 'Have to Be Horrified Uniformly'

Monsanto, owned by Bayer AG, has lost $269 million in verdicts from three trials brought by teachers, parents and kids exposed to PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyls, while attending the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington.
6 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Delaware and Federal Governments Sue 19 Corporations for Cost of Hazardous Waste Cleanup

A federal complaint cites the Superfund law for demanding companies that produced or transported waste that ended up in a Newark, Delaware landfill to foot the bill.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

DOJ Sues Honeywell, Chevron and Others Over Alleged Benzene Discharge

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

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