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 Hazardous Waste Sites -
Superfund and Related State Programs
The firm has extensive experience under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or
Superfund), including remedial action, closure and cleanup of waste
disposal sites, spills of hazardous substances, and proper notification
for spill events. Our expertise includes legislative, regulatory and
federal court representation. Attorneys at the firm have been common
counsel to groups of potentially responsible parties at multiple-party
sites. In additional, we frequently act as litigation counsel during
contribution actions against non-participating parties.
The firm has been and continues to be actively involved in numerous
hazardous waste sites subject to both state and federal agency
attention, including many of the country’s Superfund sites. The firm
also has represented a number of parties involved in private enforcement
actions under CERCLA, involving issues of corporate successor liability,
former owner/operator liability, and parent-subsidiary liability.
Specific examples include:
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Defending a former industrial owner of a
N.Y. State Inactive Hazardous Waste Site in multi-party Superfund
litigation by the State against a number of former owners and
operators. In addition, this action involved the presentation of
third-party claims against numerous other former owners, operators,
generators, etc.
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Defending an alleged generator of
hazardous substances in both government-initiated and private party
Superfund litigation with respect to federal Superfund and state
hazardous waste sites.
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