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Is Hydraulic Fracturing or "fracking" contaminating your well water with dangerous chemicals?

Our lawyers are currently investigating a controversial type of natural gas drilling called "fracking" in Pennsylvania and other parts of the country. Get a free legal review via the form below if this process has tainted your water supply.

A recent Reuters article focused on "fracking" or "hydraulic fracturing" -- a potentially dangerous type of natural gas drilling operation, and how it is affecting families across the country by devaluing property and threatening the health of community members.

The article featured an alfalfa farmer whose oily well water gave off a faint odor of paint. The farmer reportedly believed the energy companies drilling for natural gas in his community have poisoned his water and ruined his health.

According to the Reuters piece, this man has cause for alarm: Environmental Protection Agency tests found his well contained what it termed 14 "contaminants of concern" and said gas drilling was a possibility as the cause of the contamination.

Families living near gas drilling facilities in states such as Pennsylvania, Wyoming and Texas have complained that their water has turned cloudy, foul-smelling, or even black as a result of chemicals used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."

Fracking fluid spills
Energy companies maintain that their drilling chemicals are heavily diluted and injected safely into gas reservoirs thousands of feet beneath aquifers, so they will never seep into drinking water supplies.

Yet spills do occur and communities nearby worry it has taken a toll on people's health.

On September 25, Pennsylvania regulators ordered Cabot Oil & Gas Corp to halt fracking operations in one county after it admitted three recent spills of fracking fluid.

What you can do about fracking
Your community has a right to bring a suit against any corporation that is endangering families or lowering property values due to chemical spills and other acts of negligence.

As one of the nation’s leading plaintiffs’ law firms, Weitz & Luxenberg can provide you with the legal strength you need to take on companies that have polluted your community with dangerous chemicals.

We are here to help ensure that you and your neighbors have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink, and that your property is protected from activities that threaten to devalue it, such as corporate dumping.

Our clients have been the victims of vapor intrusion, water contamination, and noxious odors and toxic emissions from landfills, among other acts of negligence.

Our environmental attorneys are litigators with extensive courtroom experience and an in-depth understanding of the environmental laws.

Our litigation encompasses toxic tort, personal injury and property damage claims. We counsel and represent our clients in all phases of civil litigation, including all pre-trial proceedings.

Among other matters, Weitz & Luxenberg is currently litigating two large cases involving injuries people have sustained as a result of exposures to contaminants in their drinking water and/or in the air they breathe: one in Plant City, Florida, which has approximately 1,000 plaintiffs, and one in Grand Island, Nebraska, which has approximately 300 plaintiffs.

Our Success
The firm recently secured a landmark settlement against some of the country's biggest oil companies for contaminating public drinking water supplies with a gasoline additive known as methyl butyl tertiary ether, or MTBE. Most of those defendants agreed to pay $423 million to settle suits involving the contamination of 153 public and private drinking water systems nationally.

Weitz & Luxenberg has been winning such cases for over 20 years.

If your community has been affected by fracking, we may be able to help. Please complete the form below for a free legal review of your potential environmental lawsuit. A representative of our firm will be in touch shortly.

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