R.R. Street & Co. v. Pilgrim Enterprises, Inc.

The owner of several dry-cleaning facilities filed this suit under the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act (“SWDA”) seeking to recover costs that it incurred to remediate environmental contamination. SWDA imposes responsibility for solid waste cleanup costs on persons who “arranged” to dispose of solid waste. In this case of first impression, we must decide the intended scope of “arranger liability” under SWDA, in particular when the alleged arranger was an equipment and chemical supplier who provided waste disposal advice and improperly discarded test-vial waste fluid. We hold that under the…