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CABOT CORP. v. U.S. E.P.A.

Civ. A. No. 87-4431.

677 F.Supp. 823 (1988)

CABOT CORPORATION, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Inc., Merck, Sharp & Dhome Division of Merck & Co., Inc., Richardson-Vicks, Inc., Superior Tube Company, Synthane-Taylor, Division of Alco Industries, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, and W.R. Grace & Company v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Lee Thomas, E.P.A. Administrator and James M. Seif, Regional Administrator, E.P.A. Region III.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

January 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan LeGros, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, and Frank M. Thomas, Jr., Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, for plaintiffs Cabot, Richardson-Vicks and Synthane-Taylor.

Sheila D. Jones, David Thomson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Division, Environmental Enforcement Section, Washington, D.C., Margaret Hutchinson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Lois W. Davis, for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lee M. Thomas and James M. Seif.

OPINION

LOUIS H. POLLAK, District Judge.

A group of companies alleged to be transporters and generators of the waste deposited at Moyer's Landfill — designated potentially responsible parties (PRPs) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) — filed the complaint in this case against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).1 They claim that in the course of...

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