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Border in the Court
U.S. Supreme Court refuses Canadian company's pollution suit appeal |
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08 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:42 AM on 08 Jan 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Canadian mining company in a cross-border pollution case, in effect sustaining an earlier appeals court ruling holding the company liable for pollution under U.S. law. Just 10 miles north of the U.S. border in British Columbia, the mining company Teck Cominco has been operating a smelter that from 1892 until 1994 du ... |
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