Inside EPA - 12/06/2019

Justices Appear To Seek Narrow Basis For Halting CERCLA Damages Case

December 3, 2019
Supreme Court justices appear likely to block Montana landowners from pursuing a landmark state damages claim seeking to strengthen an EPA Superfund cleanup remedy but signaled they are likely to seek a narrow solution that would maintain EPA’s authority over cleanups while adhering to the law’s savings clauses that give states some powers. During Dec. 3 arguments in Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) v. Gregory Christian, et al. , Justice Sonia Sotomayor pressed ARCO’s attorney Lisa Schiavo Blatt, why the court...


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