Company Says Cert Needed For $8.25 Million Award To Tribe For CERCLA Costs

(May 28, 2019, 8:46 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling it an “internationally important case,” a Canadian industrial polluter says in a May 20 reply brief that the U.S. Supreme Court should grant its petition for certiorari and vacate a ruling that an Indian tribe is entitled to recover more than $8.25 million in response costs from the company for enforcement actions taken under federal law (Teck Metals Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, et al., No. 18-1160, U.S. Sup.)....