Supreme Court to Tackle Superfund Liability at Guam Landfill

The Supreme Court will review a Superfund cost recovery case that left Guam with a $160 million cleanup bill for a landfill leaking toxic chemicals into the Pacific Ocean, the court announced Friday.

Guam argued the court should grant certiorari because the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit below left the territory “on the hook for a cleanup bill that would amount to a trillion dollar outlay for the Federal Government, even though the United States itself built the dumpsite at issue and used it for decades to dump toxic waste generated by the Navy,” ...