Firm News: Environmental: Page 4

Weitz & Luxenberg has filed a federal class action lawsuit in Florida over the contamination of the Floridan aquifer with the radioactive waste product phosphogypsum. The contamination occurred after a sinkhole opened underneath a “gypsum stack” used to store toxic waste material at Mosaic Company’s New Wales phosphate fertilizer plant in Mulberry, Florida. “This company…

Weitz & Luxenberg has filed a federal class action lawsuit against six producers of firefighting foam used on military bases that led to the contamination of water supplies in Pennsylvania’s Bucks and Montgomery counties with the chemicals PFOS and PFOA. “For years, residents living near military bases in eastern Pennsylvania were unknowingly exposed to dangerous…

A federal judge selected Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., and Faraci Lange, LLP to serve as co-lead interim class counsel and to manage the Hoosick Falls, New York, class action lawsuit against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. and Honeywell International, Inc. The Court also appointed experienced Albany attorney John Powers of Powers & Santola LLP as interim…