Weekly Cases Update Volume 44, Issue 7

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Volume 44, Issue 14

ELR 2010111-cv-00859(D. Colo., )

A district court held that a conservative nonprofit group lacked standing on four of its six claims challenging Colorado's renewable energy standard (RES), which requires utilities to obtain at least 30% percent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020.

Keywords:
Energy (generally), Colorado
ELR 201022014 BL 122694(7th Cir., )

The Seventh Circuit affirmed a lower court decision dismissing a CERCLA citizen suit challenging remediation work at three landfills in Indiana. The remediation work was divided into three stages.

Keywords:
Citizen suits, §310, Held to preclude
ELR 201052013-5051(Fed. Cir., )

The Federal Circuit held that the U.S. government must reimburse four oil companies for CERCLA costs they incurred cleaning up contamination stemming from the production of high-octane aviation gas (avgas) during World War II.

Keywords:
Government contracts, Contract interpretation