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

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

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