Mike Dennis is a homeowner who did what many Americans do. He sprayed weeds around his property with a name-brand product that stores promoted and that regulators allowed. For about twenty years, from 2000 through 2020, he used Roundup once…
TL;DR:Federal inspectors walked into Siegwerk USA Inc.’s Des Moines facility and found hazardous waste handled without basic safeguards. Siegwerk ran a hazardous secondary materials operation without notifying regulators, left hazardous waste sitting in an unlabeled container with no hazard warning,…
A federal environmental case shows that Westport Pools, LLC (which does business a Landmark Aquatic) mishandled a concentrated pesticide at its Missouri facility. EPA inspectors found an unlabeled bulk tank of a registered pesticide, no lockable shutoff valve to prevent…
TL;DR: Federal and state regulators accuse Hanover Foods Corporation of repeatedly dumping polluted wastewater into a small Pennsylvania creek that feeds the Chesapeake Bay. Hanover Foods violated its discharge limits more than 600 times since 2016, allowed brown solids and…
A fuel truck operated by K & V Transport, Inc. overturned in Hancock, Michigan, and released about 6,500 gallons of gasoline/ethanol mix and diesel fuel into a public highway, stormwater system, popular beaches, and the Portage Ship Canal (where I…
TL;DR:Workers at Dave & Buster’s locations in California sued the evil corporation for a pattern of wage theft and labor abuses: missed meal and rest breaks, unpaid vacation at separation, inaccurate wage statements, and off-the-clock work. Multiple groups of employees…
TL;DR:A nuclear decommissioning company took over a Michigan plant, promised to honor the union contract, then terminated a disabled worker and tried to escape responsibility by seizing on a typo in an arbitration document. The worker’s union fought through arbitration…
TL;DR:Donlin Gold and its corporate partners designed an open-pit gold mine in Alaska that will leave behind a vast pit lake full of contaminated water that needs treatment forever to keep toxic metals from flowing into Indigenous fishing waters. A…
TL;DR:Reliance Standard Life Insurance sold a long-term disability policy to a worker who later developed a rare autoimmune disease that left her unable to work. When she turned to the policy she had paid for, the evil insurance company used…
TL;DR:A junior lawyer at one of the country’s elite intellectual-property law firms says the firm withheld tens of thousands of dollars in promised compensation while extracting more than 2,200 billable hours of work in a single year. He alleges the…