“You’ve been exposed to a very high level, I’m incensed and angry that Shell let this happen. Shell is not interested in being your friend. They will do absolutely the minimum they are required to do.”

In the United States our way of life is made possible by petroleum products such as gasoline and oil. Indeed we would not be where we are today without oil, but what is the cost to the health of our nation? Gasoline and oil products and the industries that surround them pose a significant threat [...]

A man who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) in 2006 has filed a lawsuit against 26 companies after realizing that his cancer is probably related to decades of occupational benzene exposure. Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL) is one of several rare cancers caused by benzene, and Calvin Johns suffered plenty of exposure to benzene during his [...]

More than $900,000 was paid to eight plaintiffs involved in an ongoing legal battle against Kerr-McGee Chemical, the plaintiffs’ benzene exposure attorneys announced this week. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2005, and the company has delayed payment to the plaintiffs since an arbitration decision last year. Tronox LLC, which now owns Kerr-McGee, recently filed [...]

Approximately 200 residents of Angelina County, Texas have agreed to settle a benzene lawsuit filed against Chevron in 2002. The lawsuit involved claims of property damage and health complications such as leukemia. Old, Leaky & Unused Pipeline At issue in the lawsuit was a leaky crude oil pipeline owned by Chevron that ran through Lufkin [...]

A couple living in Arizona recently filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas claiming wrongful exposure to benzene. The suit filed states that the plaintiff, Brian Foray, was wrongly exposed to the toxic chemical benzene while working for 17 years as a mechanic and maintenance worker. Twelve years after his exposure, Foray has [...]

The Simmes family, who owns the Simmes Ranch northwest of the Texaco gasoline refinery in Montana, recently filed a suit against several oil refineries. The lawsuit claims that the refineries are emitting large amounts of benzene, which is a known carcinogen, and putting the nearby community at risk.   The Simmes family says their land [...]

According to recent news, a lawsuit has been filed by the children of a man who was supposedly wrongly exposed to benzene while at work. The suit has been filed two years after the man’s death and his children say they chose to take action in hopes that others won’t have to endure the painful [...]

From Missouri an article about benzene exposure and the related diseases.  Notice that the diseases listed here are:  Leukemia and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.  These are two that are pretty tightly connected to benzene exposure. These lawsuits here are slightly different in that they are related to environmental exposure and not direct industrial exposure such we see [...]

Printers are one group of people who have historically had some significant benzene exposure.  Here is an example of a lawsuit filed in Illinois claiming that benzene exposure caused myleodysplastic syndromes. The estate of James Granat filed suit against 19 defendant corporations in Madison County Circuit Court claiming his benzene exposure caused him to develop [...]