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Tillery could add more sanitation districts to atrazine suits
Tillery Class action attorney Stephen Tillery said that up to 100 more Illinois sanitation districts could be interested in joining his six Madison County class action atrazine lawsuits. -
Feds, Madigan sue Midwest Generation over coal-fired plants
Madigan SPRINGFIELD - Federal officials on Thursday filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Illinois attorney general and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging that a company that runs six coal-fired power plants in the state is flouting federal air pollution laws. -
Brownfield to greenfield: Trees do the work in BP refinery remediation project
Trees have been planted on BP refinery property in a phytoremediation project. A cost-effective, energy efficient remediation project on Wood River refinery property is relying on nature to clean up chemical compounds and petroleum in soils and groundwater. -
Sauget residents file sixth PCB lawsuit
One more group of Illinois residents who live in or near Sauget have filed a separate lawsuit over the release of various hazardous substances they claim have created a severe health risk and have contaminated their properties. -
Two more Sauget groups sue Pharmacia, Pfizer, Monsanto, Cerro, Solutia
Two more groups of Illinois residents who live in or near Sauget have filed two separate lawsuits within one week of each other over the release of various hazardous substances they claim have created a severe health risk and have contaminated their properties. -
Third group of Sauget residents sue chemical giants
A third group of Illinois residents who live in or near Sauget have filed a lawsuit over the release of various hazardous substances they claim have created a severe health risk and have contaminated their properties. -
Second suit filed over Sauget pollution
Schoen, Walton, Telken and Foster in East St. Louis A second group of Illinois residents who live in or near Sauget have filed a lawsuit over the release of various hazardous substances they claim has created a severe health risk and has contaminated their properties. -
Rick Jones divorce trial set to begin
Bailey Ricki Lee Jones of Wood River would like to avoid a federal prison sentence but he can't get out of a divorce trial that could hurt worse than prison. -
Sears and other big names sued over lawnmower horsepower
White Outdoor lawnmower Twelve prominent lawnmower manufacturers, including Sears, are accused in a St. Clair County class action lawsuit of conspiring together and overstating the horsepower in their products so they could charge consumers higher prices. -
Sauget residents file class action over hazardous waste
A group of Illinois residents who live in or near Sauget have filed a class-action lawsuit over the release of various hazardous substances that they claim has created a severe health risk and has contaminated their properties. -
Divorce proceeding: Rick Jones says IRS, FBI have his ledgers
IRS and FBI agents have obtained records of former developer and contractor Rick Jones of Wood River, according to a document in his divorce proceeding against wife Dorothy Jones. -
Think corn prices are high now?
Our readers need no reminders that food prices are soaring. Their pocketbooks are lighter because of it. -
Hartford trustees stir litigation pot with new suit
Stack Hartford village trustees, who for years watched outside lawyers represent the entire village in lawsuits over pollution from refinery operations, have suddenly decided that they too can represent the entire village. -
Stack allows atrazine class actions to go forward, but leaves door open for defendants
Six proposed class actions against major chemical manufacturers will be allowed to continue after surviving motions to dismiss filed nearly 30 months ago with Madison County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Stack. -
Premcor, Apex Oil on the hook for Hartford clean-up
Stack In a simple solution to the puzzle of distributing blame among many oil companies for pollution in the village of Hartford, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency proposes to force two of them to clean up messes they didn't make. -
Stack close to ruling in Holiday Shores atrazine class actions
After 30 months under advisement in Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack's court, six class action lawsuits against major chemical manufacturers will finally get a ruling. -
River worker alleges illegal oil discharge in termination suit
A former employee of American River Transporation Co. and Archer-Daniels-Midland claims his employment was terminated in retaliation for reporting that oil was being discharged into sewers and the Mississippi River. -
BP says Wood River clean up has 'never stopped'
Deer Park WOOD RIVER – Atlantic Richfield environmental business manager Tom Tunnicliff, responsible for cleanup of the former American Oil Company refinery in Wood River, says he can't talk about how his predecessor, Greg Jevyak, handled the cleanup. -
IEPA director unaware of Wood River problems
IEPA Director Douglas Scott Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Douglas Scott apparently was unaware of problems in the six-year-long Wood River refinery clean-up until a newspaper report documented them, internal communications show. -
Former BP exec's lawyer wants 'courtesy and largesse' info blocked
Deer Park is one of the areas in Wood River slated for clean-up. Former BP Amoco contractor Rick Jones of Wood River performed innumerable "acts of courtesy and largesse" for former BP Amoco environmental manager Greg Jeyvak, according to Jevyak's attorney.