The Environmental Protection Agency notified Formal Ware Rental Services of Tulsa, Oklahoma, that it would be held responsible for the cleanup of a local Superfund site. The only evidence linking the clothing rental company to the site was the fact that it had once paid someone $14 to haul trash there.

A Boy Scout troop was labeled as a "potentially responsible party" to finance the cleanup of a Superfund designated scrap yard in Minneapolis.

A court ruled that a New York butcher shop owner was liable for the cleanup of the Ludlow Sanitary Landfill because the glue on the boxes he threw in his dumpster contained hazardous materials.

Several churches and local schools were identified as the target of lawsuits to finance the cleanup of a Superfund site in Gray, Maine.

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