In the nearly two decades since Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act to clean up the nation’s most polluted sites, there has been extensive litigation, controversy and overall confusion regarding the extent to which corporate shareholders, otherwise known as “parents,” may be held responsible to clean up their subsidiaries’ polluted properties.

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