Environmental Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Environmental Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. Environmental law is the collection of statutes and regulations pertaining to air quality, water quality, the wilderness, endangered wildlife and other environmental factors. The umbrella of environmental legislation covers many laws and regulations, yet they all work together toward a common goal, which is regulating the interaction between man and the natural world to reduce threats to the environment and increase public health. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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IRRC Comments On Solvent Cleaning Regulations

The Independent Regulatory Review Commission ("IRRC") reviews all the proposed regulations in Pennsylvania, including those proposed by the Environmental Quality Board. IRRC has now published its comments on the proposed regulation of solvent ...
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ISO 14000: Will It Work For You

Companies today confront a multitude of environmental management issues. Regulatory compliance and the costs associated with it can have a significant impact on a company's bottom line. An effective environmental management system (EMS) can not only ...
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Lack of Evidence that Actions Resulted in Response Costs Precludes Company’s Liability

The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan recently held that an association of paper companies was not entitled to recover the cost of cleaning up a site under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...
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Land Development in the New Millennium: Navigating Species, Wetlands, Water and Forest Issues

Private land development in California has recently become more complex because of a proliferation of environmental and land use permit approvals at all government levels. Although land development has historically been the province of local ...
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Land Protection Policy

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquires lands and/or interests in lands, such as easements or leases, consistent with legislation or other Congressional guidelines and Executive Orders, for the conservation of fish, wildlife, and plants and ...
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Land Use and Environmental Law Briefing No. 78: California’s Reenactment of Its Superfund Law Is a Mixed Bag

On May 26, 1999, Governor Gray Davis of California signed into law Senate Bill 47 ("SB 47") which reenacts and revises the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act (the "Act"), Chapter 6.8 of California's Health and Safety Code ...
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Legislative Developments Provide New Protections for Secured Creditors and Fiduciaries

INTRODUCTION Since the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA," commonly referred to as "Superfund") in 1980, and as amended in 1986, lenders and fiduciaries have been justifiably concerned about ...
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Liability Protection For Corporate Shareholders

In Donahey v. Bogle, the federal Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has just extended important protection to corporate shareholders facing environmental clean up liability under CERCLA (the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response ...
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Looking Backwards: How Do You Get Paid?

While a number of factors play a significant role in an oil spill response, of critical interest to every participant is money: how much and who pays! A responsible party clearly cares about the ultimate cost figure for a response; its insurer is ...
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Louisiana Environmental Regulations

The following final rules were issued by the state's Department of Environmental Quality in July 1999: An emergency rule establishing acceptable forms of financial security and the amount of financial security required for the various sizes ...
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