For almost 29 years, Alabama law dictated that the state's two-year statute of limitations for toxic torts cases ran from the date of the last exposure to toxic substances. As set forth in Garrett v. Raytheon Co. , 368 So. 2d 516, 520-521 (Ala. 1979), the...

Every day in the United States, more than 800,000 shipments of hazardous materials are transported across highways by tractor-trailers. On a single stretch of highway in Augusta County, Virginia, 216,000 gallons of flammable liquid travel north and south...