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Tentative settlement of vapor intrusion claims reached

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 23 2008

Shell Oil Products US and Premcor Refining Group reached a proposed agreement to pay $16 million to settle the claims of residents of Hartford, IL that gasoline and other hydrocarbons beneath the village release vapors that make the residents feel ill and damage property values

E-waste conviction

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 28 2012

After an 11 day jury trial in Denver, the executives at Executive Recycling were convicted of illegal disposal of e-waste overseas, mail and wire fraud

Constellation Energy settles Maryland Coal Ash suit for $45 million

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2008

Residents in Gambrills, Maryland are richer after Constellation Energy agrees to settle a class action lawsuit involving claims of personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by exposure to coal ash used to reclaim a sand and gravel quarry between 1995 to 2006

City of Houston seeks relief from Texas Petrochemicals, Inc

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2008

The Texas Petrochemicals, Inc. facility located near the Houston Ship Channel is the target of a recent lawsuit by the City of Houston stemming from two emissions incidents in 2006

D.C. Circuit says EPAs "transport" rule violates Clean Air Act

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 23 2012

August has been a bad month for the EPA in the nation’s federal appellate courts

CERCLA: no liability for shareholder with daily involvement in company

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2007

In New York v. BB&S Treated Lumber Corp., E.D.N.Y. (No. 02-1358, 93007), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently held that a shareholder was not liable for cleanup costs of a contaminated site even though the shareholder was involved in the daily operations of the company

Federal court rejects catalyst theory in CWA citizen suit

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 3 2009

In Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) v. City of Dallas (PDF:28), the 5th Circuit refused to grant a citizen plaintiff standing to recover its attorneys fees in a Clean Water Act citizen suit against the City of Dallas

Oklahoma's NRD claims thrown out of public nuisance case

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 6 2009

In a significant procedural move, the defendants in a major public nuisance and natural resource damages (NRD) case in Oklahoma convinced a federal district court judge to throw out the State of Oklahoma's $611 million NRD claim because the state failed to join a co-trustee, the Cherokee Nation

EPA and states weigh in on TSCA reform

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2010

EPA and state regulators continue efforts to reform chemicals management regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as Congress debates reauthorization of the federal statute

Cap & trade bill now moving in the Senate

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 13 2009

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced the Senate version of cap-and-trade bill to reduce the nation's emission of national greenhouse gases (GHG

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