What liability should NOLA have for the Agricultural Street Case? And what does it mean that the EPA declared the site as remediated?

CERCLA and Agricultural Street Case:

1) Review Agricultural Street Case from New Orleans:

• Background: https://bridgethegulfproject.org/node/300
• Background: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_18f4b255-eeb1-56af-8fe2-874edf331d3f.html
• Background on Recent Judgment Against Housing Organization: https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_defc7b04-a49e-11ec-9761-b726801505d0.html

2) What liability should NOLA have for the Agricultural Street Case? And what does it mean that the EPA declared the site as remediated?

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/01/new-orleans-gordon-plaza-epa/

3) Do you understand why the liability is not via CERCLA, under what authority were the damages awarded?