(September 1, 2021, 12:50 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 18 vacated a lower court’s dismissal of CERCLA claims against 39 companies brought by a trust and related company charged with cleaning up pollution around General Motors’ (GM) properties in the wake of the automaker’s bankruptcy. The appeals court also held that the trust’s trustee must be substituted as the plaintiff on remand....