by Kent Holland | Feb 26, 2014 | Newsletter Article
By: Steven D. Urgo, Esq. White & Williams For insurers, lenders, and those in the real estate business, Phase I Assessments have often been used as a gatekeeper for commercial transactions. This gatekeeper role originated in 2002, when CERCLA was amended to...
by Kent Holland | Feb 7, 2011 | Newsletter Article
The City of North Miami hired an engineering firm (“BB&L”) to assist it in implementing an environmental cleanup plan for a landfill that was on the U.S. EPA National Priorities List because of uncontrolled hazardous releases that included ammonia leaching into...
by Kent Holland | Jan 3, 2011 | Newsletter Article
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a contractor has no “arranger” liability under the Superfund law (CERCLA) for unconsciously denting a methanol pipeline that several years later cracked, thereby resulting in the release of methanol...
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