U.S. Chamber Backs Review Of $8.25 Million Award To Tribes For CERCLA Costs

(April 15, 2019, 8:50 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should vacate a ruling that Indian tribes are entitled to recover more than $8.25 million in response costs from a Canadian industrial polluter for enforcement actions taken under federal law because the consequences of the ruling to American businesses will be drastic, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says in an April 5 amicus curiae brief in support of the polluter’s petition for review (Teck Metals Ltd. v. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, et al., No. 18-1160, U.S. Sup.)....