ELR Citation: ELR 20548
No(s). 75-3261 (5th Cir. Jul 18, 1980)

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the owner of a barge from which oil was discharged may not, in an action by the United States to recover its cleanup costs pursuant to §311(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, escape liability on the ground that the owner of a tug that was to...