environmental protection

Overview

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), codified in 42 U.S.C. Chapter 103, is a large piece of legislation passed in 1980 that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the ability to intervene in managing land contaminated with high levels of hazardous materials.

• superfund
• property law
• environmental law
• environmental protection
• Environmental Protection Agency
• AGENCY LAW
• property
• Real Property
• tort law
• STATUTE

• Clean Water Act
• private property rights
• environmental protection
• wetlands
• hydrological connection

Appealed from: Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Oral argument: February 21, 2006