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Michigan District Court Confirms that Defendants Still on the Hook for Future Cleanup Costs of Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

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Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Contribution , Cost Recovery , Potentially Responsible Parties , Superfund The recent decision in Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP et al. NCR Corp., 1:11-cv-483 (W.D. highlights the winding and prolonged paths that some of these cases can take.

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HotSpots H2O: As Floods Subside, Pakistan’s Economy Is on a Knife-Edge

Circle of Blue

But recovery will be all the more difficult for the world’s fifth-most populous country because of a second group of factors. With damages exceeding tens of billions of dollars, flooding has affected one in seven Pakistanis. Some 630,000 people have been displaced, and 1,300 have died — hundreds of them children.

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Centre County Recycling Coordinator Joanne Shafer To Retire; Longest Serving Recycling Coordinator In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

Over her 33-year career at the Authority, Joanne managed the countywide recycling program, including curbside collection from 27,000 households, a system of over 125 drop-off sites; commercial recycling from 850 establishments and a source separated Materials Recovery Facility with a yearly capacity of 15,000 tons.

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Government Plausibly Pleads Corporate Successorship in CERCLA Lawsuit, New Jersey District Court Holds

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Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Cost Recovery , Successor Liability , Superfund

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Federal District Court Rejects Divisibility of Harm Defense, Imposing Joint and Several Liability in CERCLA Action

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Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Cost Recovery , Divisibility ("MFA") failed to demonstrate that a divisibility of harm exception to the rule of joint and several liability should be applied in apportioning responsibility to pay for the cleanup costs at a fertilizer plant.

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District Court Remands Lawsuit Involving Contaminated Water Supply Despite Federal Involvement in Cleanup

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Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Cost Recovery , Federal Jurisdiction , Removal , Subject Matter Jurisdiction Ameren removed the case to federal court because it had been subject to an administrative settlement with EPA to perform the cleanup pursuant to CERCLA, but on November 2, 2023, the U.S.

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Sixth Circuit Holds Government Was Not An “Operator” of Refineries Under CERCLA

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Read More » Tags: CERCLA , Contribution , Cost Recovery , Michigan , Operator Liability , Potentially Responsible Parties , Refinery , Sixth Circuit , Superfund