Several weeks ago, Seth Jaffe posted a piece on this blog about the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act. I disagree with him. If you want to reduce the overall cost to ...

On June 3, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new Superfund Solutions Initiative (Initiative), as well as two proposed rules to amend its regulations under the ...

Most environmental regulation proceeds from an understanding that governmental or collective action to restrain, to encourage, or to remedy some behavior will yield benefits generally, including for ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund enforcement program ensures that responsible parties clean up contaminated land and water. With the addition of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 ...

The final costs waste companies expect to face from PFAS treatment is still unclear, but executives expressed optimism about their ability to recover revenue during panels at the National Waste & ...

Archive photo of U.S. Navy Naval Air Station Cecil Field. Courtesy of U.S. Defense Imagery via Wikimedia Commons Six current and former military bases in Florida are marked as Superfund Sites by the ...

A group of excess insurers has won a coverage dispute with an Indiana barge transportation company over environmental cleanup costs at a Louisiana shipyard, after an Indiana appeals court ruled that a ...

The laws aim to force oil companies to help pay for damage from global warming. Industry is gearing up for state-by-state battles. By Karen Zraick Climate “superfund” bills, based on the principle ...

The Trump administration sued to block two state laws designed to force oil companies to pay the costs of climate change. Several other states are joining the fight, too. By Karen Zraick Vermont made ...

The principle behind the Climate Superfund is simple: we must make fossil fuel companies pay for the climate damage they have created, rather than leaving those costs to our neighbors and families.

Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act became law last summer. New York followed its lead in December. Four days later, the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute sued Vermont for abusing ...