( August 28, 2026, 11:47 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation contend in opposition to a British Columbia lead-zinc smelter operator’s U.S. Supreme Court petition for certiorari asking whether the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act “authorizes damages for the felt loss of a cultural connection to natural resources,” that “there is no circuit split on the question” and that the operator does not identify an error in, or “accurately characterize,” a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling that CERCLA does not bar natural resource damages for lost uses that have a “cultural component.”...