Category: Environmental Contamination

The Collins Law Firm is proud to serve Chicago and surrounding Illinois communities with trusted legal representation for environmental claims, personal injury, and public health advocacy. Many residents in older urban housing face the hidden risk of vapor intrusion, where toxic chemicals from conta...

The Collins Law Firm is proud to serve Chicago and surrounding Illinois communities with trusted legal representation for environmental claims, personal injury, and public health advocacy. Residents near Chicago’s airports may be exposed to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in water runof...

The Collins Law Firm is proud to serve Chicago and surrounding Illinois communities with trusted legal representation for personal injury, environmental claims, and public health advocacy. Many Chicago residents live in older buildings, including historic tenements, that can harbor harmful materials...

The Collins Law Firm is proud to represent Illinois individuals, families, and workers harmed by toxic exposure — including chemicals found in everyday cleaning products. Many people assume that consumer and industrial cleaners are safe because they’re sold on store shelves or used in workplaces...

Across Chicago’s South and West Sides, in neighborhoods like Pilsen, Little Village, and Southeast Chicago, residents have long lived alongside heavy industry. Steel plants, metal finishers, chemical processors, and diesel freight yards have left behind more than economic footprints; they’ve lef...

Illinois has one of the highest numbers of lead service lines in the nation, an estimated 600,000 in Chicago alone. For decades, those pipes have quietly carried drinking water into homes, schools, and childcare centers, exposing countless residents to toxic levels of lead. Despite public awareness ...

The Collins Law Firm is proud to represent Illinois families, property owners, and businesses devastated by natural gas explosions. These incidents are sudden, violent, and life-changing — often destroying homes, injuring bystanders, and leaving entire communities with lasting trauma. While utilit...

The Collins Law Firm is proud to serve communities and businesses throughout Illinois who are facing the devastating impact of PFAS contamination. As environmental advocates and trial attorneys, we’ve seen how exposure to these so-called “forever chemicals” can harm public health, destroy prop...

When communities are impacted by industrial fires, people need straight answers and practical help. The experienced environmental attorneys at The Collins Law Firm have stood with residents after major chemical and lubricant‐facility disasters—including the Chemtool catastrophe in Rockton, Illin...

For the last 50 years, EPA has buckled to pressure from the chemical industry, and basically done nothing to protect millions of Americans from breathing a life-threatening, cancer-causing chemical known as “ethylene oxide” (ETO). Along the way, EPA even repeatedly violated federal law – the �...