Category Archive: Environmental Litigation

State spending in response to the toxic chemical contamination that has poisoned the City of Newburgh’s primary water supply and private wells in the towns of Newburgh and New Windsor is $25 million and estimated to grow by another $26 million. What may be shrinking, however, is the state’s chances of recouping any of that…Read the article

A Nassau County Supreme Court Judge handed down a Decision today that clears the way for injured parties to continue their action against the Town of Oyster Bay for injuries the “Grumman” toxic plume emanating from the Town’s properties. Area residents have been exposed to a massive toxic plume emanating from Grumman’s local operations buried…Read the article

Napoli Shkolnik attorneys have begun filing lawsuits for those who have contracted Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) as a result of being exposed to glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup®. The case of Baker, et al. v. Monsanto Company was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware under Case No. N17C-08-348 on August…Read the article

Attention Hyannis, Hyannisport and West Hyannisport Residents Recent Tests Reveal Potentially Harmful Levels of PFOA and PFOS in the Drinking Water of Residents.  Hyannis PFOA Water Contamination Community Meeting Attend A Town Hall Meeting for Local Residents Thursday, September 7, 2017 | 6-9pm Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis 35 Scudder Avenue Hyannis, MA 02601…Read the article

Napoli Shkolnik PLLC filed three class action lawsuits in Orange County Supreme Court a little more than a year after the residents of the City of Newburgh learned they had been exposed to toxic concentrations of a fire fighting foam constituent called perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (“PFOS”). “Everyone has a right to clean water and it’s…Read the article

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