Supreme Court Could Resolve Problems With CERCLA Limitations Statute

February 25, 2021
The Supreme Court’s upcoming review of a Superfund statute of limitations case could aid in resolving key cleanup legal issues and affect other sites being reassessed for further remediation, while the high court’s 2020 ruling in another Superfund case has effectively dented the pre-enforcement review bar’s impact on state law claims, legal experts say. In January, the justices agreed to review Guam v. United States , which is expected to test which section of Superfund law, and its different statutes...


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