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Environmental Hazards

Companies and landowners in Louisiana sometimes violate federal, state and local environmental laws which regulate the discharge of toxic wastes and other pollutants into the environment. Sometimes they decide that it’s cheaper to pollute than to prevent injuries to innocent people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has identified 188 separate toxic air pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects. In addition to toxic chemicals released into the air, there are harmful chemicals that companies illegally release into the water or soil.

The EPA works with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to safeguard the environment, but it cannot always police the hundreds of illegal chemical releases that occur annually. Exposure to toxic chemicals can cause respiratory illness and injury, neurological disorders and many forms of cancer.

Harrell & Nowak represents people who have been injured by the pollution and release of toxic chemicals in the air, soil and water. These releases can be from explosions, leaks, spills, or fires.

Eric Nowak and Shirin Harrell have been appointed by the Court as class counsel in a large environmental class action case in Orleans Parish involving the release of a toxic chemical.

If you have been injured by exposure to an environmental hazard or toxic chemical in the air, soil or water, call Harrell & Nowak at 504-522-7885 for a free case evaluation by a skilled Louisiana lawyer.