D.C. Circuit Backs Legal Agreement On CERCLA Financial Assurance Rules

January 29, 2016
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is endorsing a legal agreement between EPA and environmental groups that sets a schedule for EPA to finalize long-delayed Superfund financial assurance rules for the hardrock mining industry and commits to deadlines for deciding if similar rules should follow for other industry sectors, finding that environmental petitioners have standing. At the same time, the court denied industry parties' attempt to intervene in the procedural consent order, which involves a...


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