Sec. 2. A person may, regardless of whether the person caused or contributed to the release of a hazardous substance or petroleum into the surface or subsurface soil or groundwater that poses a risk to human health and the environment, bring an environmental legal action against a person that caused or contributed to the release to recover reasonable costs of a removal or remedial action involving the hazardous substances or petroleum.
Ind. Code § 13-30-9-2
Person who may bring action
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Cooper Industries, LLC v. City of South Bend (2009)
Most recently applied in Valbruna Slater Steel Corporat v. Joslyn Manufacturing Company (August 2019)
As added by P.L.59-1997, SEC.23
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.