88 FR 4999
EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River and Bay site in Michigan.
EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River and Bay site in Michigan.
EPA announced a proposed settlement comprised of two administrative agreements in which settling CERCLA defendants must pay $1.2 million in reimbursement of past response costs paid by the United States in connection with an ongoing removal action at the Wells G&H Superfund site in Woburn, Massachusetts.
United States v. Buckhorn, Inc., No. 22-8989 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 20, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1,855,500 for response costs EPA incurred responding to the New Idria Mercury Mine site in San Benito County, California.
United States v. Alden Leeds, Inc., No. 2:22-cv-07326 (D.N.J. Dec. 16, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay $150 million in cleanup costs incurred and to be incurred at Operable Unit 2 and Operable Unit 4 of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in New Jersey.
EPA Region 2 announced a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Jewett White Lead Company Superfund site located on Staten Island in Richmond County, New York.
A proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA requires settling defendants to pay the United States and Delaware $1,071,755.84 in connection with the alleged release of hazardous substances from two manufacturing facilities in New Castle County, Delaware, leading to injury to, impairment of, destruction of, loss of, diminution of value of, and/or loss of use of natural resources.
A district court granted in part and denied in part a pipeline owner's motion for summary judgment in a CERCLA suit brought by the owner of land where the pipeline is located in West Virginia. The landowner alleged that the pipeline leaked and contaminated her soil and groundwater, and sought to rec...
United States v. Hastings, City of, No. 8:03-cv-00531, and United States v. Dravo Corp., No. 8:01-cv-00500 (D. Neb. Dec. 7, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1,439,336 to EPA for response costs incurred and to be incurred by the Agency for Operable Units 01 and 19 of the Hastings Groundwater Contamination Superfund site.
United States v. Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co., No. 3:15-cv-2328 (D.P.R. Dec. 6, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must reimburse EPA for $11 million of its past response costs at the Maunabo Groundwater Superfund site in Maunabo, Puerto Rico.
A district court granted a federal contractor's motion for partial summary judgment in a CERCLA liability suit brought by the state of New Mexico and a Native American reservation concerning Gold King Mine's release of millions of gallons of contaminated water into nearby rivers in 2015. The contrac...