88 FR 16034
United States v. United Alloys & Steel Corp., No. 23-1968 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 8, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $260,000 to reimburse the United States’ past response costs regarding the Port Refinery Superfund site in New York.
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88 FR 16005
EPA Region 7 entered into a proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Newton County Mine Tailings Superfund site in Missouri.
88 FR 15390
EPA announced a proposed cashout settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning Agency response costs at the Donna Reservoir and Canal Superfund site in Donna, Texas.
88 FR 15392
EPA announced a proposed cashout settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning Agency response costs at the Vermiculite Products Inc. Superfund site in Houston, Texas.
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.
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.