Feb. 1, 2000

Good Deed Punished

By Thomas W. Casparian The Belmont School firestorm has turned property owners' attention once again to the enormous expense of remediating environmental hazards. Federal and state laws require the property owner to mitigate any such dangerous conditions, often at great expense. The owner bears the full expense of remediation, even where the property is contaminated by previously latent hazardous waste caused decades ago by prior owners of the property of which the current owner has no