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A Good Deed May Go Unpunished: Parties That Voluntarily Clean Up Sites Can Sue for Cost Recovery Under CERCLA
One U.S. Supreme Court decision this past term brought welcomed news to those labeled 'potentially responsible parties' ('PRPs') under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. '9601 et seq. ('CERCLA'). On June 11, 2007, the Court unanimously agreed, in United States v. Atlantic Research, No. 06'562, that PRPs that voluntarily clean up contaminated property may bring suit for cost recovery against other PRPs under '107 of CERCLA. In classic style, however, the Court's opinion left certain questions unanswered and even raised one or two new questions.
In the first few years after CERCLA's passage, it was unclear whether a PRP that had cleaned up contaminated property could bring an action for cost recovery against other PRPs under '107. The question appeared to become moot after 1986, when Congress passed the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act ('SARA'), which added a number of new provisions to CERCLA, including '113, a provision expressly allowing PRPs to assert claims for contribution against other PRPs. Following the SARA amendments, every federal circuit adopted the approach that, whether or not plaintiff PRPs who brought CERCLA actions asserted separate claims under '107 and '113, the claims were uniformly treated as contribution claims.
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