Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee Report, Environment, Energy, and Resources Law: The Year in Review 2020

This chapter summarizes significant legal developments in 2020 in the area of environmental litigation and toxic torts including: challenges to Trump administration deregulation, expansion of PFAS litigation and regulation, Supreme Court limits to state remediation claims for Superfund sites, climate change litigation, rejection of DOJ challenge to private settlements, and expansion of the public nuisance theory in mass tort.

ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources