Canadian Mine Plans Second High Court Suit Over CERCLA's Foreign Reach

Canadian mining company Teck Cominico Metals is signaling that it plans to petition the Supreme Court to review an appellate ruling requiring it pay cleanup response costs to Native American tribes in Washington state, marking the second time the company will ask the high court to weigh whether the Superfund law applies to trans-boundary releases. Teck in a Dec. 10 motion to stay the appeals court's mandate says it plans to ask the justices to consider whether U.S. courts have...