at 12-15 ("Fedders’s Supp. Post-Trial Br.”) (Docket No. 343). 65 . United States v. Gen. Battery Corp., Inc., 423 F.3d 294, 298 & n. 3 (3d Cir.2005) (citing cases) (agreeing that CERCLA incorporates unaddressed common law principles of successor liability); see, e.g., United States v. Mex. Feed & Seed Co., 980 F.2d 478, 486 (8th Cir.1992) (finding successor liability to be implicit in CERCLA and consistent with Congress’s goal of having parties who created or maintained hazardous conditions bear cleanup costs); Anspec Co., Inc. v. Johnson Controls, Inc., 922 F.2d 1240, 1246 (6th Cir.1991) (noting the "universal acceptance” of corporate successor liability and interpreting CERCLA to encompass such liability); Smith Land & Improvement Corp. v. Celotex, 851 F.2d 86, 92 (3d Cir.1988) (<HOLDING>). 66 . Borg-Warner's Supp. Post-Trial Br. at 13
holding  substantial continuity is untenable as a basis for successor liability under cercla holding that  successor liability is not a tort it is an equitable tool used to transfer liability from a predecessor to a successor  quotation omitted recognizing cercla successor liability holding that notice not required because cercla is a strict liability statute holding that state law governs application of successor liability to cercla defendants