Weitz & Luxenberg - Weitz & Luxenberg responds to PCE contagion in Billings, MT

Store this angel in big sizeSeptember 25, 2006, New York, NY—In acknowledgment to account that the Environmental Protection Agency is investigating accessible breath advance into homes in Billings, Montana, nationally-recognized accumulation torts and claimed abrasion law close Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., reaffirms its advancing adherence to authority polluters amenable for the hazards they wreak on our communities. A advertiser in the acknowledged action adjoin ecology polluters, the close has formed with audience afflicted by Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE), asbestos, chromium, fluoride, advance and PCE, a allotment of added toxins. We represent over 50 baptize providers whose wells accept been attenuated with MTBE and several communities about the country for the claimed injuries and acreage accident they accept suffered as a aftereffect of pollution.

Tests beforehand this summer appear that abasement from the underground abuse in Lockwood, a adjacency southwest of downtown, were seeping up through the clay to the foundation of several homes, the Billings Gazette reported. The EPA has alternate to the area—known as Billings PCE Site—to actuate the admeasurement of the admeasurement of the alias and how abounding added homes may anon be a target.

Of the contamination, Robin Greenwald, Head of the firm’s Environmental Toxic Torts Unit said, “Citizens should not accept to feel alarming in their own homes. When companies abuse chemicals that drift into groundwater and ultimately into the air in people’s homes, those companies should accept to pay for the injuries and accident to acreage their actionable conduct causes.”

Greenwald is a longtime advocate for ecology protection. Before abutting Weitz & Luxenberg, she was an ecology analytic assistant of law at Rutgers School of Law and Executive Director, Waterkeeper Alliance, an all-embracing non-profit ecology alignment adherent to attention baptize bodies about the world. Before that, she was the arch of the ecology assemblage at the United States Attorneys Office in the Eastern District of New York and Assistant Chief of the Environmental Crimes Unit of the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.

The groundwater below about 500 acreage in Billings has been attenuated with chemicals frequently acclimated in dry cleaning. They cover tetrachloroethene (PCE), and its breakdown chemicals, trichloroethene (TCE), dichloroethene (DCE) and vinyl chloride. Depending on the authority of the plume, acreage accident from approaching breath advance could demolish afflicted homeowners.

People who accept been afflicted by ecology pollutants can acquaintance Weitz & Luxenberg. Interested parties should alarm the Client Relations administration at 1 (800) 476-6070 or via e-mail by autograph to clientrelations@weitzlux.com. You may aswell appointment our website at www.weitzlux.com

David Kufeld
Weitz & Luxenberg
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New York, NY 10038
212-558-5508
clientrelations@weitzlux.com

About Weitz & Luxenberg:
Weitz & Luxenberg, founded in 1986, is one of the arch plaintiffs, accumulation torts, artefact liability, and claimed abrasion action law firms in America. A advertiser in the acknowledged action adjoin ecology polluters, Weitz & Luxenberg has formed with audience afflicted by MTBE and added toxins. The close has played arch roles in civic and bounded litigations involving asbestos, DES, silicone breast implants, medical malpractice, and accepted negligence, a allotment of others. The close has won abundant cases involving alarming pharmaceuticals, including Vioxx, accomplishing a $13.5 actor adjudication adjoin Merck & Co. (docket No. ATLL129605).