The court rejected a commercial or market-value test as the basis for recovery. The proper measure of damages, it said, was the reasonable cost to restore or rehabilitate the environment to its pre-existing condition.

• 法院否决了以商业市场价值的估算结果作为收取赔偿的基础，认为恰当的损害赔偿应是使该环境恢复或修复到原有状态所需的合理开支。