Henshaw v. Edward E. Clark Engineers-Scientists, Inc.

REVISED OPINION

FERGUSON, Judge.

Appellants Lawrence E. Henshaw, Floyd R. Blake, Roy L. Ingle, and Willie J. High are former employees of a company which, in the course of its business, salvages out-of-service electrical transformers containing highly toxic chemicals. On two occasions within a two-year span, the Dade County Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM) informed the employer that its operations, which allowed oils containing the toxic «substances to spill “into the ground waters of Dade County,” were in violation of environmental ordinances. The employer, Pepper’s Steel…