Otherwise, he said, "there's very little precedent for successful litigation of transboundary pollution cases."
He also won a $10 million judgment against Union Oil in an industrial pollution case in Minnesota.
It is the kind of suit that may be possible only in a pollution case.
The doctrine of joint and several liability has frequently been used in pollution cases.
The settlement of the case is the largest settlement of an environmental pollution case in our nation's history.
The company also warned that its loss of a pollution case in federal court could cost it a lot of money but did not estimate an amount.
The accord means that the environmental agency has settled pollution cases in the last few years with companies that make up more than half the wood products industry.
The success rate for prosecuting in the worst pollution cases was much higher - 115 out of 338 incidents.
The 1970 industrial pollution case is considered a benchmark in nuisance law.
Lloyd's was not a named party in any of the eight pollution cases in which Judge Breyer took part.