United States v. Shell Oil Co.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

KELLEHER, District Judge.

The Court has presented for adjudication the question of the allocation of liability for the cost of cleanup of the MeColl Superfund Site, a significant and deleterious by-product of the World War II aviation gasoline program. The United States of America (“the Government”) has incurred substantial response costs in its attempts to clean up the MeColl Site and seeks by this action to recover those costs from Shell Oil Company, Union Oil Company, Atlantic Richfield Company, and Texaco, Inc. (herein referred to as “Shell,” “Union,”…