Dodge v. Cotter Corporation

PORFILIO, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 1958, Cotter Corporation, a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Edison Company of Illinois, began operating a uranium mill near Canon City, Colorado, extracting uranium from ore by an alkaline leach process. The two types of waste produced by that process, tailings, dust-like particles of ore, and raffinate, liquid recovered from the uranium extraction solutions, eventually contaminated the area, including the semi-rural community of Lincoln Park, and triggered its designation as a Superfund site on the EPA’s National Priority List. Subsequently, some five hundred…