Diamond, Jordan2019-09-252019-09-252010-10-27200700461121http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/175739"For almost ninety years Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd., a Canadian company, discharged hazardous substances into a stretch of the Columbia River located in Canada which then migrated downstream and caused environmental harm in northern Washington State. Considering a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) claim brought against the company, the federal district court found the case required an extraterritorial application of CERCLA; that to have held it involved a domestic application of the statute would have required dependence on a “legal fiction.” The Ninth Circuit affirmed the decision, but reversed the reasoning. It held the facts only triggered a domestic application of the remedial statute." (p. 1)engWith permission of the license/copyright holderclimate ethicspollutionwaterlawPolitical ethicsEnvironmental ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsResources ethicsArticle