Firm News: Environmental: Page 9

Weitz & Luxenberg today commended Governor Andrew Cuomo for signing into law a bill that will give Hoosick Falls residents the opportunity to recover medical costs associated with drinking contaminated water. “Gov. Cuomo’s action today has renewed hope for many residents who until now were prevented from taking legal action against Honeywell and St. Gobain…

Weitz & Luxenberg announced today it is investigating the scale of chemical perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) contamination in the Newburgh, NY water supply. The announcement comes after the City of Newburgh detected the chemical in Silver Stream and Washington Lake. ”PFOS contamination poses a serious health threat, and residents of Newburgh are right to be concerned…

Eighty-seven residents of Duncan, Okla., are suing energy giant Halliburton Co., its subsidiary Halliburton Energy Services Inc. and SAIC Energy, Environmental and Infrastructure LLC (formerly The Benham Companies LLC). Their suit alleges they were harmed by decades-long consumption of well-water contaminated with toxic wastes from a nearby rocket-motor recycling operation (docket CJ-2011-A51-W, District Court, Cleveland…

On March 4, 2010, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. began filing complaints against E.I. DuPont and Royle Systems Group, on behalf of over 350 residents of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. This legal action is prompted by the defendants’ decision to allow a plume of hazardous chemicals emanating from DuPont’s Pompton Lakes Works explosives factory and from…

Our environmental attorneys would like to inform residents of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey of a new public health study concerning their community. The study found that residents of one area of Pompton Lakes have more than three times the rate of kidney cancer in women and more than 2.5 times the rate of non-Hodgkins lymphoma…