Nearly 4,000 people are named as plaintiffs in personal-injury claims alleging they were harmed by the 2024 BioLab fire in Conyers and the resulting toxic plume, according to a GPB review of state court records.
Two years after the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, residents are waiting for an answer on whether the company could be required to pay for long-term health monitoring.
Two proposed federal class actions seek personal injury damages and medical monitoring over alleged health effects from the 2024 BioLab fire in Conyers.
The widow of Rockdale County official Kenny Johnson has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, as BioLab says it expects to face “dozens, and soon hundreds” of related cases.
The Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether BioLab must fund long-term medical monitoring for residents exposed to a toxic plume after the 2024 Conyers fire.
Recent approved testing methods were unable to detect some of the most dangerous byproducts of the chemicals stored at BioLab, leaving nearby businesses and residents without clear answers about what they were exposed to.
When a massive chemical fire broke out at the BioLab plant in Conyers in September 2024, the EPA had a tool: a plane, capable of mapping the toxic plume in real time. But it never left the ground.
In an exclusive interview with GPB's Pamela Kirkland, environmental whistleblower Scott Smith discusses documents about suspected surveillance while he gathered soil and water samples after the BioLab fire in Conyers, Ga., in the fall of 2024.
A new update in the federal investigation of the BioLab fire reveals the company was storing twice the intended amount of reactive chemicals before a fire at its plant in Conyers, Ga.
