In a significant decision for companies operating under an EPA consent decree or similar federally supervised remediation obligation, the Eleventh Circuit reversed remand of a state-law environmental tort case in City of Brunswick v. Honeywell International, Inc., No. 23-13200 (Aug. 3, 2026). City of Brunswick clarifies that companies performing CERCLA cleanup under EPA direction may…
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Eleventh Circuit Declines to Wade into Clean Water Rule
The Eleventh Circuit has declined to decide a case it held to be entirely duplicative of a challenge to the EPA’s and Army Corps of Engineers’ Clean Water Rule making its way through the Sixth Circuit. The plaintiffs in Georgia ex rel. Olens v. McCarthy, 2016 WL 4363130 (11th Cir. Aug. 16, 2016), filed a…