United States v. NL Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that CERCLA § 113(h) precludes jurisdiction over challenges to removal actions alleging non-compliance with National Contingency Plan
• finding that CERCLA protects groundwater and surface water, which are integral parts of interstate commerce
• “[T]he report estimates that it would costs between $13.1 and $22.1 billion to clean up all hazardous waste that poses a danger to public health and the environment. The report also summarizes the estimates of the cost to individual States of cleaning up specific sites.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).