Commercial Real Estate – May 23, 2012

by Sedgwick LLP on 5/16/2012

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania determined that a potentially responsible party conducting a site cleanup pursuant to both a state court order and an administrative settlement with a state...more

by McAfee & Taft on 4/18/2012

Owners of land on which petroleum underground storage tanks are located are responsible for the cleanup of gasoline released (In re Huntington and Kildare Inc. v. Grannis, N. Y. App. Div., No. 512100, 11/3/11). Huntington and...more

by Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 4/4/2012

Deciding statute of limitations issues in CERCLA cases is not always a straightforward matter as the recent 54 page opinion in American Premier Underwriters Inc. v. General Electric Company illustrates. There, a federal court...more

by Mintz Levin on 3/19/2012

Originally published in Law360, New York (March 14, 2012, 1:45 PM ET) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has requested public comment on a proposed reinterpretation of its polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)...more

by Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law on 3/8/2012

Over the first two decades of CERCLA, the rule gradually emerged that parties which settled their liability were restricted to contribution claims under Section 113(f)(1) and would be entitled to contribution protection under...more

by Fox Rothschild on 1/5/2012

Under the Site Remediation Reform Act, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) was tasked with establishing a ranking system that places contaminated sites into one of five categories and thereby ranks...more

by Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green PA on 10/12/2011

Awareness of the potential risks from indoor air contamination has existed for decades. In 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a “Draft Guidance for Evaluating the Vapor Intrusion to Indoor Air Pathway from...more

by Venable LLP on 7/11/2011

In 2002, Congress passed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, which, among other things, amended the Superfund statute (also known as "CERCLA") to carve out of the harsh liability scheme...more