Pa. Federal Judge: CERCLA Allows Multiple Cost Recovery Cases For Same Incident

(October 23, 2023, 9:12 AM EDT) -- PITTSBURGH — The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act allows parties to file subsequent cases for cost recovery even though they arise from the same incident of environmental contamination if the plaintiff can show that it has incurred subsequent costs, a Pennsylvania federal judge found in partly granting a recycling company’s motion to dismiss CERCLA claims brought against it in a second case arising from an alleged mercury spill....