GE Seeks High Court Review Of Cleanup Orders Despite Hudson Agreement

The General Electric Company (GE) is asking the Supreme Court to hear its long running constitutional challenge to EPA's ability to issue unilateral cleanup orders under the Superfund law, despite having already agreed to comply with the agency's cleanup plan for a major site that environmentalists feared the suit could impact. GE petitioned the high court Dec. 29 to hear the case General Electric Co. v. Lisa Jackson , in which the company has so far unsuccessfully argued that EPA's...