GM pollution

MANHATTAN — The Second Circuit vacated a New York federal court’s holding that an entity, which was created in General Motors’ bankruptcy to continue to investigate water pollution from a GM plant in Syracuse, could not seek contributory cost recovery from dozens of other entities because its liability was resolved in a 2011 consent decree. The appeals court says the decree “did not definitively” resolve liability for the entire area supposedly polluted, and others could have contributed to the wider pollution problem.