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AL Solutions settles post-explosion Clean Air Act allegations
WASHINGTON - A West Virginia-based metal recycler has agreed to implement “extensive, company-wide safeguards” to prevent future accidental releases of hazardous chemicals from its facilities.
Chesapeake subsidiary to pay $3.2M civil penalty to resolve Clean Water Act violations
WASHINGTON - A subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, the nation’s second largest natural gas producer, will spend an estimated $6.5 million to restore sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands.
Morrisey secures $1.17 million for state borrowers impacted by mortgage crisis
CHARLESTON - State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Dec. 20 some state borrowers who were impacted by the mortgage crisis will receive help through a settlement reached with the nation’s fifth-largest mortgage service provider.
Par Mar Oil settles EPA allegations over Huntington facilities
PHILADELPHIA - Par Mar Oil Company has agreed to settle alleged violations of underground storage tank regulations at two of its facilities in Huntington.
California again named worst 'Judicial Hellhole'
WASHINGTON — California again is the nation’s No. 1 “judicial hellhole,” according to a report issued by the American Tort Reform Association Dec. 17.
Morrisey, nine other AGs ask U.S. SC to review case over FTC ‘overreach’
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and nine other attorneys general want the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case they say will determine how states choose to protect citizens’ health and safety.
Supreme Court affirms $93M class action settlement
CHARLESTON — The state Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the approval of a $93 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over a chemical used in Agent Orange.
Banking companies to pay State nearly $4M to settle lawsuits
CHARLESTON - State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Nov. 19 Discover Financial Services and HSBC Finance Corporation will pay the state $1.95 million each, or $3.9 million total, to settle lawsuits alleging the companies’ credit card protection programs violated state law.
AG says ambulance authorities can't file lawsuits
CHARLESTON - State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, in an opinion earlier this month, said a local emergency ambulance authority can’t file lawsuits in magistrate court to collect unpaid special emergency ambulance service fees.
DuPont settles EPA allegations for $800K
CHARLESTON — The federal Environmental Protection Agency has announced that E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, otherwise known as DuPont, has agreed to settle alleged Clean Air Act violations at the company’s Washington Works Facility.
