A federal appeals court last week upheld a lower-court decision to dismiss a lawsuit brought against several American chemical companies by Vietnamese plaintiffs who were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Priscilla Denney, a Dow engineer, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit in Saginaw County Circuit Court alleging that that she was demoted after raising concerns about Dow data regarding levels of dioxin in Michigan's Tittabawassee River.
Residents of Ringwood, New Jersey, have hired experts from the “Erin Brockovich” case a year into their multimillion dollar lawsuit against Ford Motor Co., hoping to prove the automaker is responsible for decades of illegal dumping and causing illness in the community.
Nine West Virginia families are suing the old Monsanto Company and eight of its successors for damages relating to personal injury, wrongful death, and other claims associated with exposure to dioxins/furans.
A former employee of Twin Cities Metal in Kennewick, Washington, has filed suit against a company he says sent an electrical transformer for recycling without first draining it of contaminated oil.
A cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana, has agreed to pay a fine imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to meet clean-air standards.
Three Michigan state senators have introduced legislation that could raise the level of dioxin, a cancer causing chemical, in the ground.
Multi-Cast Corporation has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concerning air pollution violations discovered at its secondary aluminum production plant.
About 2,000 people who live near the Tittabawassee River in Michigan are allowed to jointly sue Dow Chemical Co. for damages related to dioxin contamination in the area.
Residents of Manatee County, Florida say that owners of a nearby manufacturing plant were aware that plant operations were contaminating nearby groundwater and soil, but failed to disclose this information.
Under a settlement reached with the federal government, the Oeser Plant in Bellingham, Washington will pay at least $8.6 million to finish cleaning up hazardous chemicals at its site.
A Mississippi fisherman who claimed dioxins from a DuPont factory cause his rare form of cancer was awarded $14 million in actual damages.
A team of attorneys is trying to prove that the manufacturing giant is responsible for their client's rare form of blood cancer. The case is the first of nearly 2000 civil suits against the company.
Several residents have filed a lawsuit in the wake of a fire at a chemical processing plant, fearing adverse health effects from the release of potentially deadly toxins into the community.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a retired employee is seeking class action status, claiming that thousands of workers at Rohm and Haas Co.'s Philadelphia area plant should receive periodic testing for brain tumors.
Tests conducted at the DuPont DeLisle plant have revealed the presence of a hazardous dioxin compound.
Federal health officials plan further studies after high levels of the toxic chemical dioxin were found in Nitro High School, Nitro Elementary School, and Nitro Community Center, the former location of the high school.
Dioxin was found in dust samples taken from two Kanawha County, West Virginia schools. Samples from a community center and several households in the same area were also contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical.
Industrial waste contaminated with Dioxins and other toxic wastes sits at the center of a controversy between community members who want the materials removed, and DuPont Co. officials, who want to enclose the waste site.
China's Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is being blamed after dioxins turned up in ducks and duck eggs in Changhua County.
The Michigan Department Community of Health released a report indicating that study participants from the Tittabawassee River Flood Plain have dioxin levels that are higher than average for people with no known direct exposure to dioxins.
A group of people who say they were exposed to Agent Orange and other chemicals tested at a Canadian Forces Base in New Brunswick have launched a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa.
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