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June 17, 2024 - What do you get when you combine a strict liability statute that could apply to every commercial property and a "forever chemical" that could exist almost everywhere? Designation of ...
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For nearly a century, the Anaconda Smelter, located in southwestern Montana, refined copper ore for use in phone wires and power lines. The smelter shut down in 1980, the same year that Congress ...
While there are several interesting environmental cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, two cases are particularly relevant for any legal practitioner handling Superfund cases, whether they ...
The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known as Superfund, provides private parties with two types of claims to recover costs associated ...
Monday’s argument in Guam v. United States featured sharply different interpretations of the contribution provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also ...
BROOKLYN, NY - OCTOBER 28: On the eve of the 2016 Presidential elections, an EPA sponsored cleanup of the toxic Gowanus Canal dredges a section of the canal of industrial debris on October 28, 2016 in ...
The broad liability scheme of the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) oñen results in multiple "responsible parties" being liable for the costs of ...