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A Civil Action is a 1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. [1] The book became a best-seller. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. [2] The case is Anderson v. Cryovac.
Woburn uses Massachusetts' mayor-council form of government, in which an elected mayor is the executive and a partly district-based, partly at-large city council is the legislature. It was the last of Massachusetts' 351 municipalities to refer to members of its city council as " aldermen ".
The residents of Woburn, Massachusetts sued Beatrice Foods, the operator of a tannery; Cryovac, a subsidiary of W. R. Grace and Company; and UniFirst, a laundry service, for dumping chemicals that contaminated nearby groundwater.
The state health department's Food Protection Program collected water samples from Simpson Spring on Feb. 21 and again on March 11. According to the DPH, test results found and confirmed that the ...
Based on the 1995 book by Jonathan Harr, it tells the true story of a court case about environmental pollution that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s. The film and court case revolve around the issue of trichloroethylene, an industrial solvent, and its contamination of a local aquifer. A lawsuit was filed over industrial ...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has been closing beaches due to unsafe swimming water all summer long. Heading into this weekend, 50 beaches are closed - one of the highest ...
Legislation could force the EPA to establish a health advisory and a national public drinking water regulation to limit trichloroethylene. [9] The 1998 film A Civil Action dramatizes the EPA lawsuit Anne Anderson, et al., v. Cryovac, Inc. concerning trichloroethylene contamination that occurred in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1970s and 1980s.
BOSTON — As sewage overflows become more frequent in Massachusetts, advocates and lawmakers are pushing to reduce the number of combined sewer systems to avoid run-off sewage polluting bodies of ...