Residents who have not yet contacted WCB may file a claim by visiting www.paulsborowatersettlement.com. From the Courier Post: Plastics firm settles Paulsboro suit by Carly Q. Romalino March 31, 2016 PAULSBORO – A West Deptford plastics company must pay for blood testing of Paulsboro residents who drank from the borough’s contaminated water supply. Solvay Specialty […]
Environmental Tort Law
Good News From Toms River There is a lot of bad news circulating today, but I have nothing but good news to report from my recent visit to Tom’s River. I was invited by Linda Gillick, head of the Toms River Citizen’s Action Committee for Childhood Cancer Cluster, to join her and Bob Ingenito, formerly […]
On January 17, 2017 Mark R. Cuker served as a panelist at a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) event hosted by the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Environmental and Energy Law Committee. The panel was comprised of legal practitioners experienced in representing residents and municipalities in litigation and remediation involving perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). Recently discovered in drinking water […]
We have previously posted multiple blogs about PFNA, a perfluorinated compound which has been found in many private wells in the West Deptford area. On January 11, 2017, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that it had accepted a proposal by the Drinking Water Quality Institute to establish a maximum contaminant level […]
A chemical foam used to fight fires on military installation bases in Horsham, Warminster, and Warrington, Pennsylvania for the past 40 years is being blamed for contaminating the drinking water of more than 100,000 residents. Since 2014, close to 175 public and private wells have been closed after perfluorooctane sulfanate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) […]
DuPont did not just dump PFCs—including PFOA—in the West Virginia and Ohio areas. One of its largest PFOA plants was the Chambers Works in Deepwater, NJ. DuPont spun this plant—and its attendant liability—off to Chemours. Carney’s Point Township has estimated it will cost over a billion dollars to clean up the massive Chambers Works site, […]
Cleaning Up After PFCs Isn’t Cheap: Part One compounds—in drinking water. (“Philadelphia Environmental Lawyers Reveal Landfills Harboring Harmful PFCs”, and “New Jersey’s PFOA Recommendation Raises New Concerns”) We were reminded of these heath risks again when a federal court jury in Ohio awarded $2 million to a 56 year old truck driver suffering from testicular […]
Vermont has been in the forefront of PFC regulation, setting a drinking water limit of 20 ppt (parts per trillion) months back, when EPA was still allowing 400 ppt. EPA has since lowered its Health Advisory Limit to 70 ppt. Now, Vermont may be in the forefront in a different way—PFCs have now been found […]
A Horsham, Pennsylvania, couple is seeking approximately $1 million in damages from the Navy over PFC contamination of their property. These dangerous chemicals, including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), were continuously discharged onto their property for years, depriving them of its value. Since 1994, the couple owned the property located near the former […]
Should Flint residents exposed to contaminated water file their own lawsuits? Or should they just rely on a class action filed on their behalf? The short answer is: each individual should consult an attorney to discuss whether their rights would be adequately protected by a class action, or whether they should file their own case. […]
