March 6, 2018
The New York Times: Left to Louisiana’s tides, a village fights for time
“Plaintiffs’ lawyers had won judgments and settlements in Louisiana cases demanding the cleanup of oil field contamination. The flood protection authority hired one of them — Gladstone N. Jones III of New Orleans — and constructed arguments evocative of those used 30 years earlier against Big Tobacco: Energy companies had known…
February 23, 2018
WWL-TV: Air near SE Louisiana plant poses highest cancer risk in US
“There’s no place in St. John that has a safe level of chloroprene,” Bobby Taylor said. “Man, that is frightening.” Taylor formed the Concerned Citizens of St. John after seeing rare forms of cancer and other illnesses affecting his neighbors. “This family right here lost the mother and the father and…
February 22, 2018
The New Orleans Advocate: EPA refuses to reclassify chloroprene
“Eight months after a LaPlace company asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to soften its findings about the danger of exposure to chloroprene emissions, the federal agency has instead doubled down on its message that the pollutant could be putting thousands of local residents at risk. In a 54-page report released…
July 7, 2017
Jones Swanson, co-counsel, file suit against former DuPont plant in LaPlace, Louisiana
Jones Swanson has joined with five other law firms to bring a lawsuit against a LaPlace, Louisiana-based plant that, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, has for years exposed nearby residents to unsafe concentrations of chloroprene, a “likely carcinogen.” DuPont owned the plant until 2015,…
