Lead Paint Suit Fails; City Was Seeking $52.6 Million From Company for Cleanup
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By MARIE ROHDE  In a victory for the lead paint industry, a Milwaukee County Circuit Court jury decided Friday that the nation's largest manufacturer of lead pigment used in paint did not have to pay the City of Milwaukee $52.6 million as a reimbursement for the city's lead-cleanup effort.
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By Schuster, Joe  The Ohio legislature is considering a bill that, if made law, would prevent cities from suing companies that once marketed lead- based coatings.
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By Matt Garfield, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 16--The collapse of the textile industry left behind more than a legacy of job losses and poverty in center-city Rock Hill.
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A judge in the U.S. capital pressed a $54 million lawsuit on Tuesday against a dry cleaning shop which he said violated consumer-protection laws when it lost his pants.
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Paint with higher levels of lead often sells for a third of the cost of paint with low levels, so Chinese factory owners sometimes cut corners and use the cheaper leaded paint.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour. That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a voluntary recall of Chinese-made Robbie Ducky Kids Watering Cans sold by crafts retailer Jo-Ann Stores Inc because their beaks contain lead paint.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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By Andrew Tran, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 27--FORT LAUDERDALE -- Two men were treated after inhaling pool chemicals that leaked when a truck crashed on Ocean Boulevard on Wednesday, authorities said.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 11--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants to curtail emissions from paints and industrial coatings to help clean the air of harmful ozone.
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Residents question why a new flood prevention scheme failed its first proper test.
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Proposition O, the $500 million bond measure for cleaning up L.A.'s runoff pollution passed in November 2004. The City of Santa Monica passed the similar Measure V to clean up their stormwater in November 2006.
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Attorney General Patrick Lynch is proposing that three former manufacturers of lead paint that were convicted by a jury in 2006 of creating a public nuisance with their product pay $2.4 billion for lead abatement in 240,000 homes.
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By Jonathan D. Epstein  HSBC Bank USA agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $1 million in fines and reimbursement to settle a state lawsuit over a toxic chemical cleanup in Orange County in a case brought under the federal Superfund Act.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 7--Local leaders are becoming frustrated with the ongoing efforts to devise a plan to clean up ozone in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.
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GARY, Ind. -- US Steel and seven other companies that have polluted the Grand Calumet River here for years agreed Friday to pay $56 million to settle a lawsuit to pay for its cleanup.