Court Lets Firms Sue Over Cleanup Costs
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By PETE YOST  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration Monday in an environmental lawsuit, allowing a company to seek recovery of some of its costs for voluntarily cleaning up a hazardous site.
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Neighbors of a former IBM  plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80 years that caused birth defects and cancer.
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Hundreds of people who worked on the World Trade Center cleanup have filed a class-action lawsuit against the leaseholder of the towers and those who supervised the job, alleging they did little to protect workers from dust, asbestos and other toxins in the air.
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A UK lawyer is to bring a group action on behalf on thousands of people in Ivory Coast who claim they were injured by "toxic waste".
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A U.S. Supreme Court decision this week involving voluntary cleanup of contamination will have a huge local impact as pollution is removed from a former munitions plant, officials said Tuesday.
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By MICHAEL GORMLEY  ALBANY, N.Y. - More than a dozen states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to lower soot levels from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, a move the state officials argue would save thousands of lives.
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California is suing the auto industry over tailpipe emissions, marking the first time a state has sought monetary damages for the impact of global warming by vehicles.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Plaintiffs in the long-running case surrounding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster this week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a $5 billion punitive fine against Exxon Mobil Corp, a petition filed with highest U.S. court shows.
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New York State moved to sue Exxon Mobil and four other companies to force them to clean up millions of gallons of oil lying under Greenpoint.
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SACRAMENTO -- California's attorney general yesterday sued the six largest US and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford , and Toyota , alleging that emissions from their vehicles have harmed health, damaged the environment, and cost the state millions to combat the effects.
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Coca-Cola Co. was sued Friday as part of an effort to force soft drink makers to eliminate ingredients in their products that can form cancer-causing benzene.
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A lawsuit is filed on behalf of bummed-out New York customers.
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The assembly government is taking court action to recover a grant from a dairy firm, which closed its plant last year.
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Neighbors of a former IBM   plant in New York state sued the company on Thursday, saying it  released chemicals into the air, ground and water for nearly 80  years that caused birth defects and cancer.
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A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a dry cleaners has focused on the term "satisfaction guaranteed" and where to draw the line when a customer demands satisfaction over a pair of trousers he says were lost.
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California on Wednesday sued six   of the world's largest automakers, including General Motors   Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., over global warming, charging   that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions   of dollars in damages.
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California on Wednesday sued six of the world's largest automakers, including General Motors Corp.  and Toyota Motor Corp. , over global warming, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.