Environmental Law

Environmental Law. Any present and future federal, state and local laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations and the like, as well as common law, relating to protection of human health or the environment, relating to Hazardous Substances, relating to liability for or costs of other actual or threatened danger to human health or the environment. The term "Environmental Law" includes, but is not limited to, the following statutes, as amended, any successor thereto, and any regulations promulgated pursuant... thereto, and any state or local statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations and the like addressing similar issues: the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act; the Hazardous Substances Transportation Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (including but not limited to Subtitle I relating to underground storage tanks); the Solid Waste Disposal Act; the Clean Water Act; the Clean Air Act; the Toxic Substances Control Act; the Safe Drinking Water Act; the Occupational Safety and Health Act; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act; the Endangered Species Act; the National Environmental Policy Act; and the River and Harbors Appropriation Act. The term "Environmental Law" also includes, but is not limited to, any present and future federal, state and local laws, statutes ordinances, rules, regulations and the like, as well as common law: conditioning transfer of property upon a negative declaration or other approval of a governmental authority of the environmental condition of the Property; requiring notification or disclosure of Releases of Hazardous Substances or other environmental condition of the Property to any Governmental Authority or other Person, whether or not in connection with transfer of title to or interest in property; imposing conditions or requirements in connection with permits or other authorization for lawful activity; relating to nuisance, trespass or other causes of action related to the Property; and relating to wrongful death, personal injury, or property or other damage in connection with any physical condition or use of the Property View More

Environmental Law. Any federal, state or local law, statute, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, license, authorization, decision, order, injunction, decree, or rule of common law, and any judicial interpretation of any of the foregoing, which pertains to health or safety (as they relate to exposure to, or the presence of, Hazardous Materials), any Hazardous Material, or the environment (including ground or air or water or noise pollution or contamination, and underground or aboveground tanks) and shall include... the Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. ("CERCLA"), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 ("SARA"); the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq.; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq.; and any other state or federal environmental statutes, and all rules, regulations, orders and decrees now or hereafter promulgated under any of the foregoing, as any of the foregoing now exist or may be changed or amended or come into effect in the future. View More

Environmental Law. Any applicable Law relating to pollution, the protection of human health and/or the environment, or the spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing of a Hazardous Substance into the environment

Environmental Law. The Clean Air Act (42 USC 7401 et seq. ), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 USC 9601 et seq. ), the Hazardous Material Transportation Act (49 USC 1801 et seq. ), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 USC 5901 et seq. ), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 USC 1251 et seq. ), the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 USC 2601 et seq.) and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 USC 651 et seq. ), as such laws have been or hereafter may be... amended, and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, and any and all similar present or future federal, state, or local laws and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto View More

Environmental Law. 1.34 "Environmental Law"

Environmental Law. Any applicable Law, and any Governmental Order or binding agreement with any Governmental Authority: (a) relating to pollution (or the cleanup thereof) or the protection of natural resources, endangered or threatened species, human health or safety, or the environment (including ambient air, soil, surface water or groundwater, or subsurface strata); or (b) concerning the presence of, exposure to, or the management, manufacture, use, containment, storage, recycling, reclamation, reuse,... treatment, generation, discharge, transportation, processing, production, disposal or remediation of any hazardous materials View More

Environmental Law. Means any and all federal, state and local statutes, regulations, rules, orders, ordinances or permits of any governmental authority pertaining to health, the environment, wildlife and natural resources in effect in any and all jurisdictions in which the Assets are located, including without limitation, the Clean Air Act, as amended, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, as amended, the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, as amended, the Safe... Drinking Water Act, as amended, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Act of 1984, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, as amended, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended. View More

Environmental Law. Means any federal, state, foreign or local law, statute, rule or regulation, administrative decision, order or any common law, relating to the protection of the environment, natural resources or human health or safety or related to any emission, spill, discharge, migration, release or threatened release of solid waste or Hazardous Substances into the environment (including ambient or indoor air, surface water, ground water, soil or land), or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing,... distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Substances. View More

Environmental Law. Shall mean any federal, state, or local statute, law, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, or order or decree regulating, relating to or imposing liability upon a person in connection with the use, release or disposal of any hazardous, toxic or dangerous substance, waste, or material as same may relate to the Equipment or its operation.

Environmental Law. Means any Legal Requirement that requires or relates to: (a) advising appropriate authorities, employees or the public of intended or actual Releases of pollutants or hazardous substances or materials, violations of discharge limits or other prohibitions and the commencement of activities, such as resource extraction or construction, that could have significant impact on the Environment; (b) preventing or reducing to acceptable levels the Release of pollutants or hazardous substances or... materials into the Environment; (c) reducing the quantities, preventing the Release or minimizing the hazardous characteristics of wastes that are generated; (d) assuring that products are designed, formulated, packaged and used so that they do not present unreasonable risks to human health or the Environment when used or disposed of; (e) protecting resources, species or ecological amenities; (f) reducing to acceptable levels the risks inherent in the transportation of hazardous substances, pollutants, oil or other potentially harmful substances; (g) cleaning up pollutants that have been Released, preventing the Threat of Release or paying the costs of such clean up or prevention; or (h) making responsible parties pay private parties, or groups of them, for damages done to their health or the Environment or permitting self-appointed representatives of the public interest to recover for injuries done to public assets. View More