The Supreme Court has reversed a DC Circuit decision which held that the territory of Guam was time-barred from pursuing a cost recovery action under CERCLA against the U.S. Government to pay its fair share for the clean-up of the Ordot dump.  Guam and the U.S. signed a Consent Decree under the Clean Water Act in 2004 requiring the territory to remediate the former Navy-owned Ordot dump from leaking into adjacent rivers.  Guam later filed a claim under the Federal Superfund law to recoup some of the clean-up cost.  The D.C. Circuit held that the claim was time-barred by CERCLA’s… Read more