June 03, 2024
PPG Industries told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday that the company shouldn't be fined for delaying its cleanup of an industrial waste site outside Pittsburgh because it was ready to start work in the 1990s but was slowed by infeasible demands from state regulators and environmental groups.
July 05, 2023
Washington, D.C., law firm Terris Pravlik & Millian wants PPG Industries Inc. to pay nearly $16.3 million in attorney fees and costs for more than a decade of litigation that led to cleanup efforts at a Western Pennsylvania waste site, telling a federal court it should be paid at D.C. rates because no firm in Pennsylvania would have taken the case.
June 01, 2021
Chemical manufacturer PPG Industries Inc. urged a Pennsylvania federal court on Tuesday to close out a predominantly settled lawsuit accusing it of pollution, arguing a $1.2 million payment it made to state regulators in 2019 undercuts environmental groups' pursuit of civil penalties.
March 30, 2021
Chemical manufacturer PPG Industries Inc. has agreed to get necessary permits and treat polluted water from a Pittsburgh-area waste site it owns, according to a settlement with environmental groups after nearly a decade in federal court.
April 13, 2018
A federal magistrate judge on Friday gave environmental groups a quick win on their claim that PPG Industries Inc. is liable under federal law for soil contamination at a solid waste disposal area at a site in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
June 10, 2016
A Pennsylvania magistrate judge trimmed PPG Industries Inc.'s third-party claims against a plumbingware company in litigation over the discharge of pollutants into the Allegheny River on Thursday, axing requests for cost recovery and indemnity but allowing other allegations to stand.
December 11, 2015
Two environmental groups asked a Pennsylvania federal court Friday to reconsider a decision allowing PPG Industries Inc. to bring a third-party complaint against a landfill operator in a suit alleging PPG discharged pollutants into the Allegheny River, saying the court was misled about the groups' claims and shouldn't delay remediation.
September 01, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday ruled that PPG Industries Inc. violated federal and state laws by discharging pollutants from its waste site into the Allegheny River and its tributary in Armstrong County without a permit since 1973.
December 10, 2014
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday ordered PPG Industries Inc. to apply for discharge permits for its waste site on the Allegheny River, saying environmental groups had shown that its continuing discharges constituted irreparable environmental harm.
November 14, 2014
A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that an attorney for environmental groups in a suit against PPG Industries Inc. was not disqualified because she was a witness for the plaintiffs since her testimony during a hearing was limited to a chronology of events.