Environmental Law

Example Definitions of "Environmental Law"
Environmental Law. Means, collectively, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq., the Toxic Substance Control Act, 15 U.S.C. §2601 et seq., the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq., the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C §1251 et seq., all municipal, county, and state analogues to any of the foregoing, all amendments to... any of the foregoing, any other municipal, county, state or federal law, rule, regulation, ordinance or directive regulating Hazardous Materials, and all enforceable orders, regulations and requirements under any of the foregoing. View More
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. The term "Environmental law" includes, without limitation, the following (including their implementing regulations and any state analogs): the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq. ; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq. ; the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq. ; the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. ; the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 11001 et seq. ; the Clean Air Act of 1966, as amended by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq. ; and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651 et seq. 12 View More
Environmental Law. Any present or future federal, state or local law, statute, regulation, rule, decree or ordinance, and any judicial or administrative order or judgment thereunder, pertaining to human health, or environmental conditions on, in, under or about the Premises, or regulating or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning the use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture, refinement, handling, production or disposal of any hazardous, toxic, or dangerous waste, substance, element,... compound, mixture or material, as now or at any time hereafter in effect, including, without limitation: the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq. ; the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, 42 U.S.C. §§9601 et seq. ; the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq. ; the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq. ; the Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq. ; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq. ; the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. §§ 1801 et seq. ; the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, 42 U.S.C. § 11011, et seq., the Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq., the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, as amended, 7 U.S.C. §§136 et seq. ; the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §300f et seq. ; the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq. ; and the River and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C. §§401 et seq. View More
Environmental Law. Any applicable federal, state, local or foreign statutes, ordinances or other laws, any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, and any licenses, permits, orders, judgments, notices or other requirements lawfully issued pursuant thereto and applicable to any of the Facilities, or any operations thereat (including, but not limited to, laws regulating the identification, reporting, generation, manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or threatened... release of, any pollutants, contaminants, wastes or any other substances or materials) relating to pollution or protection of the environment (including, but not limited to, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or sub-surface strata, whether outside, inside or under any structure). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Environmental Laws shall include the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act, as amended, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, the Clean Water Act, as amended, the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, the Clean Air Act, as amended, the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, as amended, and all analogous laws enacted, promulgated or lawfully issued by the United States, any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state. View More
Environmental Law. Any Law applicable to the Site or the Transferred Assets, the primary purpose of which is the protection of the environment or human health and welfare with respect to any release, emission, discharge, spill, migration, storage, disposal, or presence of any contaminants, pollutants, or other deleterious substances, including all of the following federal Laws and amendments thereto, their implementing regulations, and all state and local Laws that regulate the same subject matter: (i) the... Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 USC 9601 et seq. ; (ii) the Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 USC 6901 et seq., including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 USC 6901, and the Laws governing underground storage tanks; (iii) the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 15 USC 2601 et seq., including those provisions governing use and disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs); (iv) the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA), 49 USC 1801 et seq. ; (v) the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 USC 136 et seq. ; (vi) the Clean Air Act, 42 USC 7401 et seq. ; (vii) the Clean Water Act, 33 USC 1251 et seq. ; (viii) the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA, SARA Title III), 42 USC 11001 et seq. ; (ix) the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), 29 USC 651 et seq. ; (x) the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC 300f et seq. ; (xi) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, 30 USC 801 et seq. ; (xii) the Oil Pollution Act of 1990; and (xiii) the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 View More
Environmental Law. All Laws, Permits, remediation standard or guideline or agency requirement or code of conduct, environmental plans relating to (i) the protection, investigation or restoration of the environment, human health or safety, sanitation or natural resources, (ii) the handling, use, presence, generation, treatment, storage, transportation, emission, disposal, burial, discharge, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Substance or (iii) noise, odor, indoor air, employee exposure, wetlands,... pollution, contamination or any injury or threat of injury to persons or property relating to any Hazardous Substance View More
Environmental Law. Any federal, state or local law, statute, code, ordinance, or common law, whether now in existence or established or enacted in the future, relating to pollution, protection of the environment, health, industrial hygiene, Hazardous Substances (including, without limitation, the manufacture, generation, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling thereof) or relating to above ground or underground storage tanks, including but not limited to CERCLA, SARA, the Solid... Waste Disposal Act, as amended by RCRA and the Solid and Hazardous Waste Amendments of 1984, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977, the Clean Air Act of 1966, as amended, the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1975, RCRA, the Florida Resource Recovery and Management Act (Florida Statutes §§403.701, et seq. ), and the Pollutant Spill Prevention and Control Act (Florida Statutes §§376.011 through 376.17 and 376.19 through 376.21), and any and all amendments to any of the foregoing View More
Environmental Law. Whenever enacted or promulgated, any applicable federal, state, foreign and local law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, or any code, license, permit, authorization, approval, consent, court order, judgment, decree, injunction, or agreement with any governmental entity, (x) relating to pollution (or the cleanup thereof), or the protection of air, water vapor, surface water, groundwater, drinking water supply, land (including land surface or subsurface), plant, aquatic and animal life from... injury caused by a Hazardous Substance or (y) concerning exposure to, or the use, containment, storage, recycling, reclamation, reuse, treatment, generation, discharge, transportation, processing, handling, labeling, production, disposal or remediation of Hazardous Substances, in each case as amended and as now or hereafter in effect, and (ii) any common law or equitable doctrine (including, without limitation, injunctive relief and tort doctrines such as negligence, nuisance, trespass and strict liability) that may impose liability or obligations or injuries or damages due to or threatened as a result of the presence of, exposure to, or ingestion of, any Hazardous Substance. The term Environmental Law includes, without limitation, the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, the federal Water Pollution Control Act, the federal Clean Air Act, the federal Clean Water Act, the federal Resources Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (including the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments to RCRA), the federal Solid Waste Disposal Act, the federal Toxic Substance Control Act, the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the federal National Environmental Policy Act and the federal Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, each as amended and as now or hereafter in effect View More
Environmental Law. Any agreement or restriction pertaining to any Mold Condition or any federal, state or local statute, regulation, ordinance, code, rule, regulation or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative decree or decision, whether now existing or hereinafter enacted, promulgated or issued, with respect to any Hazardous Substances, Mold, drinking water, groundwater, wetlands, landfills, open dumps, storage tanks, underground storage tanks, solid waste, waste water, storm water run-off, waste... emissions or wells. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term shall encompass each of the following statutes and their state and local equivalents, and regulations promulgated thereunder, and amendments and successors to such statutes and regulations, as are applicable and as may be enacted and promulgated from time to time: (i) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (codified in scattered sections of 26 U.S.C. ; 33 U.S.C. ; 42 U.S.C. and 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq. ); (ii) the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq. ); (iii) the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. §1801 et seq. ); (iv) the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. §2061 et seq. ); (v) the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq. ); (vi) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq. ); (vii) the Safe Drinking Water Act (21 U.S.C. §349; 42 U.S.C. §201 and §300f et seq. ); (viii) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. §4321); (ix) the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (codified in scattered sections of 10 U.S.C., 29 U.S.C., 33 U.S.C. and 42 U.S.C. ); and (x) Title III of the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (40 U.S.C. §1101 et seq.). View More
Environmental Law. Any federal, state or local law, whether common law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or judicial or administrative decision or policy or guideline, pertaining to Hazardous Substances, health, industrial hygiene, environmental conditions, or the regulation or protection of the environment, and all amendments thereto as of this date and to be added in the future and any successor statute or rule or regulation promulgated thereto
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