Law360, New York (February 09, 2011, 6:54 PM ET) -- Given the maturity of our nation’s environmental laws, it comes as a surprise to many new environmental practitioners that no clear federal cause of action exists to recover the costs of cleaning up petroleum released by other responsible parties as a result of the exclusion of petroleum from the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act.
The so-called petroleum exclusion was created during the rush to pass CERCLA in December 1980. The bill that eventually would become CERCLA, the Hazardous Waste Containment Act, began in the...
Thinking Strategically About Petroleum Contamination
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