In a hearing today before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Environment, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) stressed the importance of protecting water ...
On December 18, 2025, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment will hold a hearing on “Examining the Impact ...
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Witnesses pressed lawmakers to act on PFAS-related legislation in 2026 to protect “passive receivers” including water utilities and waste facilities. Environmental groups instead pushed for PFAS to be ...
June 17, 2024 - What do you get when you combine a strict liability statute that could apply to every commercial property and a "forever chemical" that could exist almost everywhere? Designation of ...
Many Superfund practitioners have spent years litigating cases in which a private plaintiff seeks to establish that defendants are liable for costs of responding to a Superfund problem and that they ...
The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known as Superfund, provides private parties with two types of claims to recover costs associated ...
Monday’s argument in Guam v. United States featured sharply different interpretations of the contribution provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, also ...
For nearly a century, the Anaconda Smelter, located in southwestern Montana, refined copper ore for use in phone wires and power lines. The smelter shut down in 1980, the same year that Congress ...