The Bridgeton Landfill, about 20 miles northwest of St. Louis, is in many ways a typical pile of trash. Bridgeton is a layer cake of garbage and dirt at the bottom of an old limestone quarry, all of it covered with a frosting of clay, plastic liner, soil and grass. But for the last six

Secret meetings and lies about a landfill project in Pickens County were outlined in a statement by Pickens County Council, but the attorney for the company says the allegations are bogus.

By: Radley Balko, Originally Published: May 6, 2016, Source: The Washington Post Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a four-part series. “To this day, if you live in Kershaw County and saw those media reports, you’d still think Lori Jean Ellis was just some crazy old black lady who opened fire on a bunch

By: Howard Nations, Source: HowardNations.com The great trial lawyer Daniel Webster said: “Justice is the greatest concern of man on earth.” There is no greater professional calling than to stand as a lawyer at the bar of justice and breathe life into the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the statutory law and common law by defining,

A new study shows the massive tolls pollution causes. By: Nathan Place, The Daily Beast; Originally Published: 3.29.16 Environmental toxins, particularly air pollution, cause women to give birth prematurely. If you’re a soulless plutocrat or Scrooge McDuck, that won’t bother you, but this might: Those births cost the United States $4.3 billion a year. That

Source: Public Justice, Originally published on 1.13.16 A coalition of animal protection, consumer rights, food safety, and whistleblower protection groups is challenging a North Carolina law designed to deter whistleblowers and undercover investigators from publicizing information about corporate misconduct. Public Justice is representing all of the groups in the coalition. Under the law, organizations and journalists who