Paint-Firm Lawsuit Urged: Community Group Wants Akron to Renew Effort to Go After Companies That Made Lead-Based Paint
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By John Higgins, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 2--Community activists lobbied Akron City Hall on Thursday afternoon because they want the city to sue Sherwin-Williams of Cleveland other paint companies for causing lead-based paint hazards.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 20  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court of Ohio today let stand a decision that refused to allow plaintiffs to sue former manufacturers of lead pigment or their alleged successors without identifying who made the lead pigment in their homes.
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By The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 7--Chris Korleski said all the right things last week during his visit with the board of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Solid Waste Management District.
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A group of heavy Marlboro smokers have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking Philip Morris USA to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages of lung cancer, court documents showed on Friday.
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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 14--About 1,100 families in Wichita are being encouraged to get blood tests for their children because their water may be contaminated with lead.
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The    Salt Institute  has its blood pressure up. The group that represents 36 domestic and foreign salt producers is appealing its loss of a lawsuit that challenged the science a    National Institutes of Health  agency used in 2003 to recommend that lower...
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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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What happened to all the lead-tainted products that have been recalled recently? Most, it turns out, may still be in the consumersâ hands.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A state-of-the-art recycling center stalled by lawsuits from occupying a planned Newhall business park is now envisioned for a site between Newhall and Canyon Country.
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By Ed Meyer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 16--RAVENNA -- A wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Friday over the July drowning of the 6-year-old granddaughter of late Browns owner Al Lerner at her mother's estate in Mantua Township.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 24--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will accept comments through Saturday on a fund established in connection with fires and odors at a southern Stark County landfill.
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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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Consumer goods company is facing its challenges and looking for a turnaround.
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The state of Ohio has filed an anti-trust lawsuit accusing Marsh & McLennan Cos , AIG  and three other insurers and their subsidiaries of price fixing and other anti-competitive behavior, Attorney General Marc Dann said on Monday.
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The company is doing well while dealing with slower homebuilding and lead-paint litigation.
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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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SACRAMENTO, Calif.  - Members of the board of  Calpers, the biggest U.S. pension fund, voted on Monday to  demand that major car makers meet with them to defend their  lawsuit against California's new air quality regulations to  reduce exhaust emissions from cars and trucks.