National Grid to Face Revived CERCLA Claims Linked to GM Site

A trust tasked with cleaning up pollution around a former General Motors Corp. plant in New York can proceed with its cost recovery and contribution claims, but the trustee must be substituted as the plaintiff, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response Trust’s and RACER Properties LLC’s federal Superfund claims are ripe, and further delay would cause hardship, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in a reversal of the lower court’s findings.

An agreement approved by a bankruptcy court created RACER Trust to clean up the former Syracuse Inland Fisher Guide Plant site. ...