EPA Making Superfund Cleanup Decisions Faster, Attorneys Say

The EPA is focused on cleaning up Superfund sites contaminated with hazardous materials despite the Trump administration’s deregulatory emphasis, according to attorneys working with that statute.

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), or Superfund law, is “the one program that’s at least as robust as it was previously,” said Robert Fox, managing partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP, on Thursday during the American Law Institute’s Environmental Law conference.

The Environmental Protection Agency may not be adding new sites to its list of ones to be cleaned up under Superfund law, but it’s making cleanup ...