EPA Can’t Evade Enviro Firm’s $2.7M Cleanup Site Pay Claim, US Court Says
Source: https://www.enr.com/, January 10, 2021
By: Mary B. Powers
A Richmond, Va., federal appeals court has restored an environmental consultant’s legal fight for $2.7 million in federal funds to cover work at a Superfund cleanup site it managed, rejecting a lower court’s dismissal of its claim over a technicality.
In ordering the federal district court to reconsider the case, the appellate judges in the December ruling dispute the contention that August Mack Environmental Inc. was not entitled to the payment because the firm failed to submit a form that the US Environmental Protection Agency said has not been used in 25 years. Read more.