https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275259 Hazardous chemical operations were treated as giving rise to absolute and non-delegable liability for environmental harm, so proof of due care did not relieve the polluting enterprise from compensating for damage to the village, soil and groundwater. The Polluter Pays Principle was applied to place the financial burden of prevention and remediation on the polluter rather than the public. The Court also accepted a broad constitutional and statutory basis to order closure of offending plants, removal of toxic sludge, restoration of the environment, and recovery of remediation costs from the industry for use in environmental repair. en-us Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:58:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275259 Hazardous chemical operations were treated as giving rise to absolute and non-delegable liability for environmental harm, so proof of due care did not relieve the polluting enterprise from compensating for damage to the village, soil and groundwater. The Polluter Pays Principle was applied to place the financial burden of prevention and remediation on the polluter rather than the public. The Court also accepted a broad constitutional and statutory basis to order closure of offending plants, removal of toxic sludge, restoration of the environment, and recovery of remediation costs from the industry for use in environmental repair. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275259