Sentence examples for pollution lawsuits from inspiring English sources

Four pollution lawsuits against the company are pending, he said.

The critics contend that it was foolish to weaken the pollution lawsuits without extracting anything in return.

Its lawyers found nothing amiss with the pollution lawsuits, concluding that they were supported by "a reasonable basis in law and fact".

Earlier this year, a group of pro-business state legislators in Oklahoma staged a pre-emptive strike against Mr Edmondson, with a bill that would have limited the attorney-general's power to file pollution lawsuits against companies.

Leaders in the House, which approved the larger energy package last year, dismissed the new plan, particularly the lack of legal protection for makers of MTBE, the gasoline additive at the center of pollution lawsuits around the country.

C. Boyden Gray, who was White House counsel during the first Bush administration and represented some utilities, said the companies viewed the pollution lawsuits as "a gun to the head".

The jury hearing a pollution lawsuit against the DuPont Company reported yesterday that it was deadlocked on many issues and had agreed on some.

Last week, Cullen, who co-owns the twice-a-week northwest Iowa newspaper with his brother John, was honored by the Pulitzer Prize board for a series of editorials about a water pollution lawsuit brought by the Des Moines Water Works against his home county, Buena Vista County, and two others.

Another idea is a low-tech effort to extract phosphorus by using crops which are then harvested.Whatever the outcome of the nutrient-pollution lawsuits many people seem to believe that strict limits will come anyway, one way or another.

Mr. Greenberg built A.I.G. by making lucrative specialties of risks so exotic that most competitors wanted no part of them: kidnappings, environmental pollution and shareholder lawsuits.

But the company said it opposed the Chicago Clean Energy plant because it could make the utility vulnerable to lawsuits or pollution enforcement by government agencies.