Environmental hazards occur when entities or individuals intentionally or negligently discharge or release chemicals, toxic substances, hazardous wastes, biological and/or radioactive agents, or other substances.
Through the contamination of your home, health, or the environment by large corporations, toxic exposure can be devastating to you and your community's well-being. Despite environmental laws — or in many cases due to a lack of them — countless Americans have cancer and other health conditions because of exposure to environmental hazards like asbestos, chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides, and radiation. This unwanted contact has caused Americans to have increasing ecological health and safety concerns about their communities.
Environmental hazards can cause serious illnesses or even death among children and adults living in areas where contamination by spillage, seepage, emissions, runoff, or improper disposal of waste, chemicals, toxins, radiation, biologicals, or heavy metals. When big companies negligently or recklessly pollute our environment because of their careless and callous attitudes, the damage they inflict affects thousands, or even tens of thousands, of families throughout the area. Communities close to many manufacturing, transportation, and storage industries, mines, oil, and gas exploration efforts, farms, and waste management companies are particularly at risk.
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The position will involve litigating product liability cases throughout all phases, from filing to trial. The job requires strong legal research and writing skills and a solid grasp of civil procedure.
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