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New ASTM Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments Takes Legal Effect: What This Means for Scoping Due Diligence

Today, February 13, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International E1527-21 "Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process" becomes the modern legal...more

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Superfund Defenses That The Government Hopes You Don't Know About - Part 1

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With its imposition of strict, joint and several, and retroactive liability, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), also known as the Superfund statute, has raised...more

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NJ Emergency Rule Modifies Site Remediation Timeframes In Response To COVID-19

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On April 24, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) adopted a temporary rule modification that grants extensions to certain site remediation timeframes under the Administrative Requirements for the...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Storage Tank Compendium/Correspondence: ASTM Visual Sump Pump Test Standard...

The Petroleum Marketers Association (“PMAA”) publication Weekly Review published a March 26th article addressing a new ASTM Standard for spill bucket and sump testing. Spill bucket and sump testing is required by 40 C.F.R. §...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

CERCLA and the Superfund Task Force: The more things change, the more they stay the same? - Thomson Reuters Westlaw

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601, known as CERCLA or the Superfund law, was enacted in 1980 during the final days of the Carter administration. It was intended to...more

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Tax Sale/Superfund: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Applicability of Third Party Defense

\The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Court”) addressed whether a California tax-sale purchaser was entitled to a third-party defense provided by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,...more

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Former Slidell, Louisiana Superfund Site: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Recognizes Excellence in Reuse

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced in a May 18th news release that the City of Slidell, Louisiana, (“Slidell”) was recognized for its reuse of a federal Comprehensive Environmental Response,...more

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Brownfields: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency March 15th Federal Register Notice Regarding Supplemental Funding/Revolving Loan...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a March 15th Federal Register notice regarding the availability of supplemental funds for the Revolving Loan Fund (“RLF”) capitalization grants: ...more

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Superfund/Applicable, or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements: Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management...

The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) has published a position paper titled: State Concerns with the Process of Identifying Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation...more

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Modernizing the Superfund Cleanup Program: January 18th U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment Hearing...

The Subcommittee on Environment of the United States House Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a hearing addressing the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act or Superfund...more

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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act/Superfund Award: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced in a January 8th news release that it is awarding $71,430 to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”). The award is stated to be provided...more

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CERCLA/Superfund Sites Targeted for "Immediate/Intense Action": December 21st U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy...

The Chairman and two Subcommittee Chairmen from the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce (“Committee”) addressed a December 21st letter to Administrator Scott Pruitt of the United States...more

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CERCLA/Superfund: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces 21 Sites Targeted for "Immediate/Intense Action"

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a December 8th news release identifying 21 sites that it has targeted for what it describes as “immediate and intense action.” No Arkansas sites are found on...more

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The New Environmental Due Diligence Standard Saga Continues

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To supplement our prior blog posts with respect to this issue, on December 30, 2013, the USEPA published a final rule (“Final Rule”) adopting the ASTM E1527-13 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments, Phase I...more

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Be Careful What You Look For: EPA Updates “All Appropriate Inquiries” Environmental Diligence Standard

On December 30, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) amended its “All Appropriate Inquiries” rule, which sets out the standard for environmental due diligence in commercial and industrial property...more

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EPA Recognizes New Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments in Real Estate Transactions

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Effective December 30, 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has amended its regulations for site assessments in real estate transactions to add a new standard, ASTM E1527-13, as satisfying the agency’s requirements...more

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EPA Amends All Appropriate Inquiries Rule To Clarify Best Practices

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The EPA has amended its "All Appropriate Inquiries" Rule (AAI Rule) to reference the recently published ASTM International E1527–13 Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment...more

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