Pete Nyquist's article "Seeking Early Settlements in Multi-Party CERCLA Actions" was published in the April 20, 2015 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. The article begins:
There are many reasons for litigants in environmental cost recovery and contribution actions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) to pursue early settlement. The cases typically involve technically complex sites, with regulatory agency oversight, and many — often hundreds of thousands — of potentially responsible parties (PRPs). At larger sites, it can take years to define the extent of contamination, identify and organize the PRPs, evaluate remedial options and, finally, allocate each party's "fair share" of estimated response costs.
Read the article in its entirety here.
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