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
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
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