Alan Hersh, the 70 year old former owner of a barrel recycler, was sentenced to prison and fined for hazardous waste violations in February, 2009. He was ordered to spend 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitutionf or clean up [...]
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No, it is not somebody’s cheap cologne wafting into your space and causing your allergies to act up.
It is a relatively new issue that arises in hazardous site cleanups and brownfield redevelopment. After the source of the contamination is removed, the groundwater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater; http://www.groundwater.org/) remains. Groundwater is found at different depths in different climates. The [...]
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The United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case questioning whether a tenant has to reimburse the landlord for the cleanup of hazardous waste it left behind. Therefore, the opinion of the lower court stands as the rule of law.
Intracel was a pharmaceutical company that held a ten year lease. It stopped paying rent [...]
Filed under: Hazardous Waste, United States | Tagged: cleanup, landlord, RCRA, tenant, trespass, US Supreme Court | 2 Comments »
