--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | The Montana Supreme Court description: The Montana Supreme Court | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Supreme Court decision provides Superfund Responsible Parties with some relief](https://blog.stpub.com/supreme-court-decision-provides-superfund-responsible-parties-with-some-relief) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Mon, Jul 27, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/contam.png) ](https://blog.stpub.com/supreme-court-decision-provides-superfund-responsible-parties-with-some-relief) Forty years ago, the federal “Superfund” law -- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) – was enacted to provide legal requirements and procedural methodologies to speed identification and cleanup of contamination. Today, cleanups continue and the requirements and procedures continue to evolve. In April, the United States Supreme Court issued its latest decision interpreting a Superfund provision, this one defining clearer limitations on when the owners of contaminated land can force Responsible Parties for that contamination to pay for cleanup more extensive (and expensive) than cleanup ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The case is *Atlantic Richfield Company v. Christian*. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/supreme-court-decision-provides-superfund-responsible-parties-with-some-relief) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/supreme-court-decision-provides-superfund-responsible-parties-with-some-relief#comments-listing) Tags: [EPA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa), [RCRA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/rcra), [clean water](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/clean-water), [Supreme Court](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/supreme-court), [Superfund law](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/superfund-law), [CERCLA](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/cercla), [The Montana Supreme Court](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/the-montana-supreme-court) [All posts](https://blog.stpub.com/all) ### Follow Me ### Subscribe by Email ### Browse by Topic Area - [Accounting & Tax ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/accounting-tax) - [Business & Legal ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Corporate Governance  ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Corporate+Governance) - [Environmental ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Environmental) - [Global ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Global) - [Health & Safety ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [Internet ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Internet) - [Transportation ](https://blog.stpub.com/../?Tag=Transportation) ### Browse by Tag - [Environmental (344)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental) - [Business & Legal (309)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Environmental risks (300)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-risks) - [Health & Safety (296)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [EPA (283)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa) - [Terms & Conditions](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-Terms-of-Use-Dec-20.pdf) - [Privacy Policy](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/STP-Privacy-Policy.pdf) - [License Agreement](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-License-Agreement-Dec-20.pdf) - [Sitemap](http://stpub.com/sitemap) - [Support](http://stpub.com/support) © 2021 STP ComplianceEHS - All rights reserved