88 FR 13442
EPA entered into a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the JJW Metal Recycling Fire Superfund site in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
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The Oak Ridge Cleanup: Protecting the Public or the Polluter?
The Oak Ridge Reservation is one of the largest U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities in the country, with areas that are highly contaminated by chemicals, metals, and radionuclides. DOE is in the middle of a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar cleanup there, and a recent Superfund decision for one portion of the site raises a number of significant legal issues. This Article addresses some related questions: Should radionuclides get less stringent cleanup than other equally harmful pollutants like mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls?
88 FR 12995
United States v. Honeywell International Inc., No. 5:23-cv-00059 (N.D.W. Va. Feb. 22, 2023). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay for all future EPA and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection response costs and reimburse $534,165 of the United States’ past response costs in connection with the release of hazardous substances at the Hanlin-Allied-Olin Superfund site in Moundsville, West Virginia.
88 FR 12357
EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA involving a mixed work and funding agreement, including a proposed compromise of up to $1.841 million in direct and indirect EPA costs associated with the Agency’s contribution to the implementation of a removal action at the Mansell Field Site in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
88 FR 6257
EPA entered into a proposed settlement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Logan Street Mercury Response site in Ada County, Idaho.
88 FR 6257
EPA announced a proposed administrative cost settlement for recovery of response costs concerning the Sessions Clock site in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
88 FR 5920
United States v. Lynden, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00101 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 24, 2023). Settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants that released hazardous substances and discharged oil from facilities along and near the Lower Duwamish River must pay $556,250 for natural resource damages; purchase restoration credits in a restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River by a project developer to serve as a restoration credit bank; and pay their equitable share of assessment costs.
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.
87 FR 80183
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.
87 FR 78996
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.