ELR Citation: 47 ELR 20090
No(s). 15-2209 (10th Cir. Jul 19, 2017)

The Tenth Circuit held that a mining company has the right to recover cleanup costs at a Superfund site because the U.S. government was an owner under the statute. Over the last century, the mining company and its corporate predecessors mined molybdenum at a site near Questa, New Mexico. The mining ...