Supreme Court to Hear Environmental Case (polluters want clean-up $ reimbursed)

[babylonsister]

Sue, sue, sue! No wonder there are so many lawyers.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OMB5F00&show_article=1&catnum=0

Supreme Court to Hear Environmental Case
Apr 23 09:19 AM US/Eastern
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
AP Business Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider an environmental case Monday that could make it easier for many industrial companies to recover some of the millions of dollars they've spent cleaning up hazardous waste sites.

The case involves the 1980 federal environmental law, known as "Superfund," that set up a process for rehabilitating polluted industrial areas. Under the law, if the Environmental Protection Agency sues a company to force it to clean up a site, that company can then sue other parties that contributed to the pollution for a share of the cleanup costs.

But lower federal courts have disagreed about what happens if a company voluntarily chooses to clean up a site: can it sue other companies, or the U.S. government, to recover costs? Or does the Superfund law require a company to be sued by the EPA first, before it can take action against other parties?

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[meegbear]

1. 5-4 for the companies ...

an unfair burden on the "hapless polluters".

[babylonsister]

2. 5-4, those will be the numbers from now on, I'm afraid. nt