8th Circuit: Migrating Chemicals Can’t Be Linked to New Consent Decree

Mealey's (August 11, 2022, 3:17 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 5 affirmed a trial court’s finding that two companies do not have standing to intervene to oppose an amended consent decree governing the cleanup of a neighboring property because the companies cannot show that the new consent decree could be linked to their alleged injury that certain hazardous chemicals were migrating from the neighboring property onto their property....