What Level of Culpability Does CERCLA Require Before Authorizing an Award

question 40

Multiple Choice

What level of culpability does CERCLA require before authorizing an award of punitive damages against a polluter?

• A) Intentional violation of the law
• B) Recklessness
• C) Negligence
• D) It is only required that the defendant be the responsible party in regard to the pollution with the defendant's mental state being irrelevant.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points around their mean, commonly used in finance to assess the risk or volatility of an investment.

Risky Asset

An asset that has a significant degree of risk associated with it, offering the potential for higher returns in exchange for the increased risk.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is used in finance to gauge the amount of historical volatility of an investment.

Risk-Free Asset

An investment that is expected to return its principal and interest with near certainty, such as government bonds from stable countries.