Within the world of environmental litigation, Natural Resource Damage (“NRD”) issues present us with a fascinating subset of historical research challenges. Most of TRG’s work related to environmental litigation involves records from the 20th and 21st centuries, to document various aspects of owner and operator activities at contaminated sites. However, …

Last week, citizens of Flint, Michigan filed two class-action lawsuits against Gov. Rick Snyder, Michigan Department of Health & Human Services, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and other government officials.  These follow a declared state of emergency in Flint, a pending investigation from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District …