Tag: Financial Responsibility

Miners and States take Notice, the EPA is Updating its CERCLA Financial Responsibility Requirements

By Mike Mills and Eric Skanchy on September 21, 2015 Posted in Mining

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has recently announced that it would take steps to finalize rules establishing financial responsibility requirements for hard rock mines under section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”). Section 108(b) gives the EPA the authority to require certain facilities to have some type of financial … Continue Reading