Posted on June 19, 2014
Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) signed a bill on Friday that moved the deadline for new renewable energy requirements, reported the Washington Post late last week. In 2008, former Democratic Governor Ted Strickland signed legislation requiring the state to acquire 12.5 percent of its energy...
Posted on June 19, 2014
SunTrust Mortgage Inc. has agreed to pay $968 million to resolve False Claims Act violations in connection with mortgage origination, servicing, and foreclosure abuses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week. About half, $418 million, resolve SunTrust’s liability;...
Posted on June 16, 2014
Preschools and day care centers are full of toxic flame retardant chemicals, the San Francisco Chronicle reported earlier this month. Brominated flame retardants and tris phosphate compounds have been linked to hormone disruption and lowered IQs, and are chemicals known to the State of...
Posted on June 13, 2014
Thanks to TCG client Anthony Held, The ERGO Baby Carrier, Inc. (ErgoBaby) has agreed to reformulate all of its upholstered bassinets to virtually eliminate a toxic flame retardant. ErgoBaby and affiliated company Orbit Baby agreed earlier this month to remove the flame retardant tris(1,3-...
Posted on June 12, 2014
Thanks to TCG client Peter Englander, Costco has agreed to only sell furniture from supplier Whalen Furniture Manufacturing, that virtually eliminates two toxic chemicals, tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) and phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”). ...
Posted on June 10, 2014
Congress is making yet another attempt at reforming the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), this time with the Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA). CICA promises to improve public confidence in the safety of chemicals and facilitate interstate commerce. It is supported by...
Posted on June 5, 2014
Anthony Held, Paul Wozniak, and Whitney Leeman--clients of The Chanler Group--served seventeen new 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation yesterday. The notices were served to companies offering products such as sunscreen, walkers, jewelry, and accessories for sale in California...
Posted on June 3, 2014
Medtronic Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $9.9 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company used various types of payments to induce physicians to implant pacemakers and defibrillators manufactured and sold by Medtronic, the Department of Justice announced...
Posted on May 30, 2014
The United States filed a complaint against technology company CA Inc. for violating the False Claims Act, the Department of Justice announced yesterday. CA Inc. manufactures and sells information technology products and is headquartered in New York.
In its complaint, the government...
Posted on May 29, 2014
A new study conducted by HealthyStuff.org found that many university themed products sold at top retailers contained one or more hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, lead, bromine, chlorine, mercury, phthalates, and cadmium. The researchers found that university licensed products routinely...
