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EPA Draft Report on Fracking

By Sean Wajert on June 8, 2015
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a draft report on hydraulic fracturing, concluding that there is no evidence that fracking ha…
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Hearing Questions EPA Stance on Fracking

By Sean Wajert on April 27, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a hearing earlier this week to review federal hydraulic fracturing research activities. The hear…
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TSCA “Reform” Bill Moves To Senate Floor

By Sean Wajert on July 25, 2012
Posted in Articles, Chemical

Over the past several years, Congress has wrestled with chemical safety and possible ways to modernize TSCA. Chemical business leaders, public officia…
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EPA Releases Draft BPA Report

By Sean Wajert on July 23, 2012
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products

Last week, the EPA released a draft analysis of chemicals that may substitute for bisphenol A’s use in thermal paper — that’s the material often used…
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House Subcommitee Chair Questions EPA Approach on Fracking

By Sean Wajert on June 12, 2012
Posted in Articles, Chemical

We have posted before about the tremendous economic promise of fracking technology, and the attempts of the plaintiffs bar to exploit this promise. An…
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EPA Issues New Proposed HPV Chemical Rules

By Sean Wajert on November 4, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued two proposed rules last week that would require manufacturers and importers of dozens of high producti…
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Medical Monitoring Claim Rejected in Rail Spill

By Sean Wajert on September 13, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Medical Monitoring, Toxic Tort

The Sixth Circuit recently rejected the medical monitoring claims of a putative class of residents of a small Ohio town who alleged exposure to chemic…
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New Theory Emerges in Climate Change Litigation

By Sean Wajert on May 11, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Just as many eyes are focused on the climate change/global warming cases pending in the appellate courts, a group of activist environmentalists have e…
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Showdown Over Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Looming in Congress

By Sean Wajert on March 22, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

We have posted before about a number of issues related to greenhouse gas regulation and climate change litigation. Now comes word that a potential sho…
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Legislation Proposed to Curb EPA Greenhouse Gas Authority

By Sean Wajert on February 9, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

As we have noted in previous posts, one of the many important questions lurking in the climate change/global warning cases currently being litigated i…
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