Environmental Pollutants
Lafarge-Ravena
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Ravena residents: You have a right to a clean and safe environment free of Lafarge's mercury emissions.
Learn about how we can help with an environmental lawsuit.
Lafarge cement plant in Ravena reported in 2003 that it emitted 40 pounds of mercury from its smokestacks, but testing revealed the plant actually released about 400 pounds of mercury into the air, according to the Daily Gazette newspaper in Schenectady, New York.
Ravena families have a right to protect themselves from mercury, and other toxins emitted by corporate polluters such as Lafarge.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, mercury is a neurotoxin. Outbreaks of methylmercury poisonings have made it clear that adults, children, and developing fetuses are at risk from ingestion exposure to mercury.
When mothers with no symptoms of nervous system damage gave birth to infants with severe disabilities, it became clear that the developing fetal nervous system is more vulnerable to methylmercury than is an adult's nervous system.
The most common way people are exposed to any form of mercury is by eating fish containing mercury.
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, tainted water, and noxious odors and toxic emissions from landfills, among other acts of negligence.
Our Success
The firm recently secured a landmark lawsuit 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 you have been affected by Lafarge Cement Plant or any another corporate polluter, we may be able to help with an environmental lawsuit. Please fill out the form below for a free lawsuit assessment. We will be in touch shortly.
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