Pa. Dep't of Envtl. Prot. v. Trainer Custom Chem., LLC

JORDAN, Circuit Judge.

We are asked in this interlocutory appeal to decide whether the owner of a piece of land is liable for the costs of an environmental cleanup that took place there before the owner acquired it. Our answer is yes.

Trainer Custom Chemical, LLC ("Trainer") acquired a property known as the Stoney Creek Site (the "Site") for $20,000, after Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection ("PADEP") had already incurred over $818,000 in environmental cleanup costs at the Site. The cleanup costs continued to mount following Trainer's acquisition of the property, both because…