In re Motors Liquidation Corp., No. 09-50026 (REG) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Apr. 30, 2012). A settling CERCLA party responsible for violations at certain portions of the Onondaga Lake Superfund site near Syracuse, New York, must provide the United States with an allowed general unsecured claim of $896,566 in past and future costs. 

In re Motors Liquidation Corp., No. 09-50026 (REG) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Apr. 30, 2012). A settling CERCLA party responsible for violations at the Onondaga Lake Superfund site near Syracuse, New York, must provide the United States with an allowed general unsecured claim of $38,344,177 and an allowed general unsecured claim of $859,257 to New York. 

United States v. Cabot Corp., No. 1:12-cv-01097 (N.D. Ohio May 3, 2012). Eighteen settling CERCLA and CWA defendants responsible for discharges from their industrial facilities into the lower Ashtabula River and Harbor in Ohio must pay more than $2.3 million in natural resource damage assessment costs incurred by federal and state trustees, must implement a number of natural resource damage restoration projects, and must pay $440,000 to the trustees for future restoration activities. 

United States v. Freeport-McMoRan Corp., No. 4:12-cv-00307-HCE (D. Ariz. Apr. 24, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for damages to natural resources, surface waters, terrestrial habitat and wildlife, and migratory birds in southeastern Arizona must pay $6.8 million to the DOI's Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund, including $98,138.70 in unpaid natural resource damage assessment costs.

United States v. Atlas-Lederer Co., Nos. C-3-91-309, 3:05-cv-0058 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 25, 2012). Under a combined consent decree and proposed stipulation, settlement agreement, and order, a settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the United Scrap Lead Superfund site in Troy, Ohio, must pay $301,250 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site; a settling Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act and Federal Priority Act defendant must pay $279,750 to the United States for fraudulent diversion of proceeds. 

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires three settling parties to pay $145,000 in U.S. response costs, plus $2,750.23 in interest, for violations at the City Storage Superfund site in Sulphur, Louisiana. 

In re W.R. Grace & Co., No. 01-01139 (JFK) (Bankr. Del. Apr. 10, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Big Tex Superfund site in San Antonio, Texas, must provide the United States with an allowed general unsecured claim of $2,200,000. 

United States v. Clean Harbors of Braintree, Inc., No. 11-11440 (D. Mass. Apr. 11, 2012). Under a revised consent decree, a settling EPCRA and RCRA defendant responsible for violations at its hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility in Braintree, Massachusetts, must implement a $612,500 supplemental environmental project to plant trees in low-income or minority areas in Boston and must acquire an aerial ladder fire truck for the town of Braintree at a cost of no less than $450,000. 

United States v. Saporito, No. 07-cv-03169 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 16, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Crescent Plating Works Superfund site in Chicago, Illinois, must pay $40,000 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site based upon their ability to pay. 

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling parties to pay $60,000 in U.S. response costs incurred at the Tecumseh Heus Superfund site in Calumet County, Wisconsin.