By: Ron Barnett, Greenville Online Originally published: March 16, 2016 Pickens County has filed a third-party complaint in the coal ash lawsuit, adding MRR Southern, LLC, the parent company of MRR Pickens, as a defendant in the case, according to court documents. Also, Circuit Judge Robin Stilwell, who denied MRR Pickens’ motion for a temporary injunction
As discussed before, the real drivers of healthcare costs are not lawsuits, which studies by Johns Hopkins Medicine found are less than 1% of healthcare costs. The big costs are a result of fraud. Kindred Healthcare, a large for profit chain of nursing homes, will pay $125 million to settle allegations that it billed Medicare for
By: Ron Sobczak, Sierra Club Upstate March 2016 Bulletin You may have read about the proposed coal ash landfill in Pickens. Coal ash is the generic term referring to several very distinct materials produced when we combust coal to produce electricity. We need places to safely store the huge amounts of coal ash generated from coal power plants. The
By: Vince Jackson, Independent Mail Originally Published: January 31, 2016 PICKENS COUNTY — The Pickens County Council has retained the services of an environmental lawyer in the ongoing controversy involving the possible dumping of coal ash in the Liberty area. Spartanburg attorney Gary W. Poliakoff has been retained by the county to look at the
By: Ron Barnett, Greenville Online Originally Published: February 18, 2016 The company that wants to build a landfill for coal ash near Liberty used “deceit, fraud, misrepresentation” and “bare-faced lies” to get state approval to bring in coal ash without Pickens County’s knowledge, an attorney for the county told a circuit judge Thursday. Robert Goings,
Big Methane Leak Causes State Of Emergency The Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles is officially in a state of emergency, according to a declaration by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. The area has been suffering from the effects of a methane gas leak at the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility since late October. At
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