Law360, New York (January 06, 2011, 6:56 PM ET) -- General Electric Co. is looking to the nation's highest court to revive a due process challenge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority to unilaterally order potentially responsible parties to clean up polluted sites.
GE filed its petition for a writ of certiorari — dated Dec. 29 but docketed Wednesday — with the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging a June 29 appeals court decision.
Over the last three decades, the EPA has issued more than 1,700 unilateral administrative orders to more than 5,400 companies that the agency said...
GE Takes Fight Over EPA Power To Supreme Court
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