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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Environmental Law Articles
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The Environmental Audit As A Compliance Management Tool
The environmental compliance audit has become more widespread in the last few years. Many environmental laws have criminal sanctions when you know you are violating the law, and sometimes when you don't. The U.S. Department of Justice says we will ...
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The Expanding Role of Environmental Insurance in Lending Transactions
Environmental insurance increasingly is being used as a tool to help lending deals close and is fast becoming one of the hot topics in commercial lending today. Environmental insurance can make the difference between a deal successfully completed ...
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Title V Planning: Audit Result Disclosures Of New Source Review Or Prevention Of Significant Deterioration Violations Merit Reduced Penalties
On September 30, 1999, EPA's Director of the Office of Regulatory Enforcement issued a memorandum entitled: "Reduced Penalties for Disclosures of Certain Clean Air Act Violations" (Air Audit Memorandum"). A step-child of its Audit Policy, the ...
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Total Maximum Daily Load Litigation: An Opportunity to Augment Instream Flows?
This article was published in Rivers, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1997, by S.E.L. & Associates. 8 1997. Instream flows provide a number of benefits to aquatic ecosystems including habitat for aquatic organisms, improved conditions for most riparian ...
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Trading Air Emissions Rights and Using Wetlands Mitigation Bank Credits
Two amendments by the 1999 Virginia Legislature changed important rules for trading air permit emissions and for using wetlands mitigation bank credits. Both amendments add federal requirements to existing state requirements and will become ...
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Trashing Superfund: The Role Of Municipal Solid Waste In CERCLA Cases
This article was originally published in the Outside Perspectives section of CCM -The American Lawyer's Corporate Counsel Magazine, November 1999 issue, and appears here with the permission of American Lawyer Media, L.P. A new judicial ruling ...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Frequently Asked Questions
Check with your local authorities (town, county, state) for directions on how to dispose correctly of household wastes, solvents, paints, and paint cans. Check with your local authorities (state, region). States are typically the agencies ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Application of the Clean Water Act to Isolated Intrastate Waters
The United States Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") and the regulated community have often disagreed about what types of water bodies should be regulated under Section 404(a) of the Clean Water Act ("CWA") -- the so called "dredge and fill" permit ...
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U.S. Supreme Court Severely Narrows U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jurisdiction Over Waters of the United States
Section 404(a) of the Clean Water Act authorizes the Army Corps of Engineers to issue permits allowing the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters, which are defined as "waters of the United States." In accordance with ...
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Underground Storage Tanks
As we have noted in past newsletters, by December 22, 1998 underground storage tanks must be brought into compliance with regulations promulgated pursuant to the Underground Storage Tank ("UST") Act (Part 211 of Michigan's Natural Resources and ...
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