ELR Citation: 45 ELR 20018
No(s). 07-40440 (5th Cir. Jan 14, 2015)

The Fifth Circuit held that a corporation should not be held liable as an arranger under CERCLA for costs associated with cleaning up a plume of perchloroethylene (PERC) that discharged from a dry cleaning business that operated in the 1960s and 1970s. A district court in 2006 had held the corporati...