Environmental Litigation

NAPOLI SHKOLNIK PLLC attorneys have handled landmark environmental cases and can help recover from personal injuries and property damages arising out of exposure to perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and GenX. Clean drinking water is a finite natural resource and a precious commodity. In recent years, however, public drinking water supplies have become contaminated…Read the article

Napoli Shkolnik PLLC has recently taken on claims regarding public water contamination in Hyannis, Hyannisport, and West Hyannisport.  We are actively working to investigate this unfortunate matter. Within the past two years, toxic levels of the chemicals that exceeded health advisory limits were found in the Hyannis water multiple times. The chemical has been identified…Read the article

Roundup is one of the most popular weed killers that there is, and is used commercially and privately by millions of people throughout the United States. The active ingredient in Roundup is glyphosate, and is the second most used weed killer in the United States. In fact, almost all of the corn, soy, and cotton…Read the article

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo directed the New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Health (DOH) expand their ongoing investigations of the Wheatfield landfill’s potential of having contaminated nearby residential properties. This means that the DEC and town of Wheatfield will include both soil and groundwater testing in surrounding residential properties to see…Read the article

Two big energy companies were recently named in a class action lawsuit: First Energy Corp. and NRG Energy, Inc. The suit also names a smaller, local contracting company too – Matt Canestrale Contracting Inc. Filed by the representative of a collection of residents of the town of Labelle in Fayette County, the suit seeks to…Read the article

The Observer-Reporter recently spoke with Napoli Shkolnik Partner Louise Caro regarding the class-action lawsuit the firm filed against FirstEnergy Corp. on behalf of Fayette County village residents. Caro said, “I think the people that live there in LaBelle are being completely ignored and have been poisoned for some time, and it’s not going to stop.”…Read the article

The Flint scandal, which involved officials taking cost-cutting measures that resulted in the contamination of the city’s drinking water and criminal charges against 13 current and former government officials is now taking on new meaning for families in Brooklyn, New York. The city Department of Education (DOE) records show that a recent test revealed a…Read the article

Chemicals found in firefighting foams are causing water contamination in communities around the country. For residents in Hyannis, Hyannisport and West Hyannisport, alarmingly elevated levels of PFOS and PFOA were found in their their wells. This lead Barnstable town officials to issue public advisories for the Hyannis water system on more than one occasion since…Read the article

It has been more than two months since Napoli Shkolnik filed the first group of Notices of Claim against the Town of Wheatfield, and on March 26th the first lawsuit on behalf of 70 current and former residents exposed to the toxic landfill was filed.   Napoli Shkolnik Partner Louise Caro  says she and the firm will…Read the article

Toxic chemical perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) has been detected in Newburgh’s private and public water supply wells since 2014. The hazardous chemical was found in the city’s drinking water supply, Lake Washington at alarmingly elevated levels. In fact, based on benchmarks set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Newburgh declared an emergency in May 2016…Read the article