Bob McCarty Writes

Almost one year ago, I published an exclusive post about how I had scooped The New York Times by 100 days with news about a Colorado company’s involvement in a mega-lawsuit related to Chevron Oil Company’s operations in Ecuador.  Though one of more than 50 posts I’ve written and published about the legal battle since [...]

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Do residents living in neighborhoods near a former EPA Superfund site 30 miles west of St. Louis deserve compensation for being exposed to radioactive materials?  The answer to that question could very well be “Yes.” Located adjacent State Highway 94 in a once-rural section of St. Charles County, Mo., the Weldon Spring (Mo.) Site was [...]

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Radiation exposure-related lawsuits are likely to be filed soon, according to Marc J. Bern, senior partner at the New York City-based law firm, Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik LLP., who spoke before a crowd of potential clients in St. Louis Thursday. The venue was a 12th-floor meeting room at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel.  The [...]

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Eleven days after publishing an exclusive story about Missouri health agency officials refusing to answer questions or inform St. Charles County (Mo.) residents about a new Weldon Spring cancer report, it appears that story is beginning to attract attention from St. Louis-area news media outlets. Yesterday, I received an email from Blythe Bernhard, medical reporter [...]

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After publishing more than three-dozen posts since April 22, 2009, about the $113 billion environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador, I can finally report good news for truth, justice and the American way:  An international arbitration tribunal has awarded Chevron Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company $96 million in a claim against Ecuador related to past [...]

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Thanks in part to the more than three-dozen posts I’ve published since April 22, 2009, loyal readers of this blog are familiar with the details of the $113 billion environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador.  For those who want to cut to the chase, so to speak, I share a five-minute video that that offers [...]

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Major League Baseball lost me as a “rabid” fan after a 1981 strike caused the cancellation of 713 games.  I simply could not rationalize how players could complain about the compensation they were receiving when they were earning six-, seven- and eight-figure salaries — not to mention product endorsements and other perks — for playing [...]

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