Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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and operators at the time of release are responsible parties regardless of who caused the release of hazardous substances. New York v. Nat’l Servs. Indus. Inc., 352 F.3d 682, 684 (2d Cir.2003); Shore Realty, 759 F.2d at 1044. The term “operator” in the case of a facility means: “any person who :.. operated, or otherwise controlled activities at such facility immediately beforehand.” 42 U.S.C. § 9601(20)(A). Under CERCLA, “any person who operates a polluting facility is directly liable for the costs of cleaning up the pollution.” U.S. v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51, 65, 118 S.Ct. 1876, 1886, 141 L.Ed.2d 43 (1998). “This is so regardless of whether that person is the facility’s owner, the owner’s parent corporation or business partner, or even a saboteur who sne 854, 854 (D.Del.1989) . Here, the Plaintiffs argue that the Fire
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that an organization lacked standing to challenge allegedly lax epa regulations of hazardous waste because its members did not have to follow the lax procedures
B. holding that where a regulation could not fairly be read to have spoken at all on an issue an agencys proposed interpretation of the regulation as it pertained to that issue was not a reasonable interpretation of the regulation
C. holding that a states regulation of a hazardous waste site did not make it an operator of the site
D. recognizing oklahomas policy of allowing regulation instead of competition in waste disposal services
E. holding local regulation of hazardous waste disposal facilities preempted by comprehensive and detailed state regulatory scheme
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.