Paying More than Your CERCLA Fair Share
By EsqSocial Corporation 08/01/21
The rhetoric of enforcement under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-75, plays well in public. The government seeks “cleanup” and makes “the polluter pay.” Cf. S. Rep. No. 96-848 at 13 (1980); Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, 140 S. Ct. 1335, 1345 (2020). Contrast that with mitigating climate change where, in the words of the Pogo Earth Day poster, “we have met the enemy, and he is us.” Four years ago, then-new EPA...
By: (ACOEL) | American College of Environmental