Monthly Archives: January 2011

Michigan Amends Statute to Add New Institutional Control Continuing Obligations

January 29, 2011 – 9:00 am

For years, Michigan’s cleanup laws have set forth a fairly novel approach aimed at protecting new “nonliable” purchasers of contaminated property.  The legal and regulatory regime involves a characterization of the pre-purchase contamination as well as post-puchase “due care” procedures.  Last month, in December 2010, Michigan added institutional control (IC) compliance and management obligations to […]

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Court Finds “Appropriate Care”

January 25, 2011 – 4:11 pm

In 3000 E. Imperial, LLC, Plaintiff, v. ROBERTSHAW CONTROLS CO, et al. Defendants, No. CV 08-3985 PA, 2010 U.S. Dist. Lexis 138661 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 29  2010), a Federal District Court in California found a contaminated property purchaser to have exercised “appropriate care” and, in turn, to have satisfied the Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser (“BFPP”) […]

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Ashley II Court Addresses the BFPP Defense

January 19, 2011 – 1:05 pm

In the years I’ve spent helping to draft a Continuing Obligations Guide as part of the ASTM E50 Committee, my colleagues and I have often acutely noted (and perhaps lamented) that no court has ever directly addressed CERCLA’s Bonafide Prospective Purchaser (“BFPP”) defense.  Well now there’s a case.  In Ashley II of Charlseston LLC v. PCS Nitrogen, […]

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