Dee Lewis on Nov 29th 2007
By Tom Wilber
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ENDICOTT — Negotiations to settle more than $100 million in health and property claims related to pollution from the former IBM factory have failed, leaving attorneys representing nearly 1,000 area clients planning to file a lawsuit against the company in January.
IBM’s offer of $3 million to settle all claims, with a release from further action, fell well short of expectation, according to a letter dated Nov. 27 from Levene Gouldin & Thompson to clients.
The plaintiffs will move ahead with litigation “based on these very disappointing developments, especially in light of more than three years we had spent meeting with IBM in what we always assumed was good faith bargaining,” the letter states.
A group of lawyers representing the plaintiffs are meeting in Philadelphia Thursday to plan the next step.
According to the letter, the $3 million did not include personal injury claims, which IBM believes are without merit. But the settlement would include a provision that would release the company from those claims, anyway.
The claims stem from a subterranean plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) found to be creating fumes and wafting into homes and buildings near the plant.
Lawyers for IBM cited changes in the company’s management that created “a new attitude … concerning claims arising from chemical contamination, and the type of litigation through which contamination claims are asserted and resolved,” according to the letter.
IBM representatives could not be reached Wednesday night. In the past, the company has declined to comment on litigation as a matter of company policy.
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Silver Spring woman running for school boardBusiness Gazette, MD - 11 hours agoMuskin has also served six terms as Einstein cluster coordinator and area vice president for the Blair, Einstein, Kennedy and Northwood clusters. …
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recycling rules!Twin Cities Planet, Minnesota - Nov 20, 2007with " cancer clusters" all over the east coast, she remembered fishing in lake ontario one day and learning that it was off limits the next. …
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nano cancer-bombs and mini organs from mitRegister, UK - Nov 19, 2007… liver cells into colonies just 500 micrometres across. the tiny clusters of cells behave much like real livers – they secrete the blood protein albumin, …
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nanotubes zap cancerNature.com (subscription), UK - Nov 5, 2007cancer cells can be destroyed from within, by injecting them with nanotubes and then zapping the tubes with radio-frequency waves. steven curley at the …
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_http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/322962.html_ (http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/322962.html) Sun, Nov. 25, 2007 Report assesses
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Science News – November 21, 2007 New data on a widely used flame retardant New research suggests that the flame retardant Dechlorane Plus is ubiquitous in
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… From: Eric Uram To: CONS-EQST-COMM@… Sent: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 4:47 am Subject: NV mines emit more mercury than
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) New Tools Make Understanding Air Quality Easier Than Ever Contact: Margot Perez-Sullivan, (202) 564-4355/
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Zip code 75980 with two counties, Angelina and Jasper scorecard (2002), TRI data is later…but here are some of the polluting facilities:
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Friends, Following is the URL to the website of Trevor and Charlie Smith, our fellow NDCA members. Make sure to pull down the “Media” tab for a video of
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More diagnoses spur Monday night Q&A on brain cancer By _CHRISTINE S. DIAMOND_ (mailto:cdiamond@…) The Lufkin Daily News Sunday, November 18, 2007
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EJ Conference, Inc. is a non-profit organization that was formed in 2007 to produce a national environmental justice conference each year in Washington, DC.
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Dee Lewis on Nov 28th 2007
National Campaign to Spotlight the Deadly Mix of Toxic Racism and TCE Contamination on an African American Family
NASHVILLE, TN, November 23, 2007 – On Thursday, November 29, a coalition of national leaders, representing environmental justice, civil rights, scientists, women’s health, academia, faith-based and religious groups, legal, and elected officials, including congressional staffers, from around the country will meet at Nashville’s Fisk University and board a bus for Dickson, a small town located about 35 miles to the west.
The national leaders will travel to Dickson and participate in the “Take Back Black Health Toxics Tour” and see for themselves in real time a slam-dunk, in-your-face case of environmental racism. The tour is sponsored by the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN), Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University (EJRC), Race Relation Institute at Fisk University (RRI), Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University (DSCEJ), Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ), and WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Inc.
(WEACT).
The tour will highlight the devastating impact of toxic contamination on a black family. Tour organizers hope to raise awareness and for national leaders to put pressure on Congress to make the elimination of environmental hazards in low-income and people of color communities a national priority issue in the upcoming elections. Continue Reading »
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