Public Justice’s Leslie Brueckner is co-lead counsel in this California Supreme Court appeal that concerned an issue of enormous importance to consumers and tort victims throughout the State: whether the “economic-loss rule” precludes recovery of purely economic damages arising out one of the most serious…
Public Justice and Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), representing Citizens Coal Council, filed a citizens’ suit against Matt Canestrale Contracting, Inc. (MCC) for violations of Pennsylvania’s Clean Streams Law, Air Pollution Control Act, and Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act;…
A loophole in environmental regulations and inadequate enforcement left 37 Pennsylvania residents exposed to dangerous sewage sludge from neighboring farm fields. Public Justice joined two lawsuits on behalf of the residents. The suits are Gilbert v. Synagro and Jasinski v. Synagro. The Pennsylvania plaintiffs in…
The Sierra Club and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy are suing two mining companies for discharging pollutants that have biologically impaired streams in West Virginia. The groups are represented by Public Justice and Appalachian Mountain Advocates. The lawsuit, filed March 2012 in federal court in Charleston,…
Public Justice is assisting Hudson Sloop Clearwater in its opposition to the 20-year relicensing of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant, arguing that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission erroneously concluded that minority and low-income populations would not be disproportionately affected in the event of an…
Public Justice is counsel for Pilgrim Watch, a citizens group that opposes Entergy Corp.’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., in this administrative proceeding about securing the public’s right to a hearing on the adequacy of safety upgrades to nuclear power plants, which was…
Public Justice is co-counsel with the Environmental Integrity Project for Little Blue Regional Action Group, a citizens group in Pennsylvania that is contesting the coal ash disposal practices of FirstEnergy, the owner of the nation’s largest coal ash disposal site, Little Blue Run. The coal…
In early 2011, the CDPHE issued a Radioactive Materials License to Energy Fuels Resources Corporation for construction of the $150 million Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in the Paradox Valley of Montrose County, Colo., as a result of Colorado being an “Agreement State” under the federal…
