Guam Brings Long-Running Superfund Debate to Supreme Court

Guam will take its fight to get reimbursed for environmental cleanup near a former U.S. Navy dump to the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments April 26.

The U.S. struck a deal with Guam under the Clean Water Act in 2004 that required the territory to stop the Ordot Dump, a former Navy-owned facility that was Guam’s only municipal landfill, from leaching waste into adjacent rivers. Guam ended up with a $160 million bill for the dump’s cleanup, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it waited too long to try to recover those ...