Legal liability environmental

The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 required careful analysis of the consequences of any federally funded project. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 established guidelines for handling, transport, and hauling of hazardous materials, such as required in cleanup of soil contaminants. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 established, for the hrst time, strict mles on legal liability for soil contamination. CERCLA stimulated identihcation and cleanup of thousands of contaminated land sites, and consequently raised awareness of property buyers and sellers to make soil contamination a focal issue of land use and management practices (US-EPA 2007c). 

Because of legal liability, many companies are deciding not to supply aromatic oils because of their carcinogenicity and environmental impact. Typically, aromatic oils are being replaced with oils with low polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) alter-... 

B) Any contamination of the environment or damage to natural resources at a facility owned or operated hy Seller or a facility/location chosen hy Seller for its disposal of Wastes or any other facility at which Seller s Wastes may he released or threatened to he released, including any liability imposed by federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances, including, but not limited to, the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 USC 9601 etseq., the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 USC 6901 et seq., or comparable and applicable state legal requirements or any extension or revision thereof or... 

Beyond these indirect costs, there are future costs associated with new or more stringent variations of existing environmental legislation. We also need to recognize that all operations, especially those within complex industry sectors like petrochemicals, carry liabilities and exposures to potential catastrophic releases. Systems do fail for a variety of reasons, leading to unplarmed and sometimes innocent mistakes, that may result in third-party exposures for environmental damages or health risk exposures. These costs are related to legal fees, loss in consumer confidence, and subsequent losses in market shares for the products a company sells, as well as the clean-up associated with the spill or release. 

Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) provide the basic legal framework for the federal "Superfund" program to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites. 

Downside reports environmental risk, liabilities and legal issues are discussed at some length in the report These discussions, together with the way operations and impact data are reported, suggest that the downside is being reported in the CER. 

All legal aspects of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 are covered in this book. Topics include the Bability framework, prerequisites to suit civil procedure, settlements, and the roles of the EPA, Justice Department, and the courts. 

ISBN 0-87179-720-8,800 pages, 118 This book covers the basic federal statutes regulating hazardous waste, and includes information on enforcement private actions In protecting public interest environmental torts. International aspects of hazardous waste liability, and other topics. The book provides hundreds of cases to Illustrate information regarding legal issues. 

ACGIH = American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists BLR = Business Legal Reports, Inc. CERCLA = Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act CFR = Code of Federal Regulations CPSC = Consumer Protection Safety Commission EPA = Environmental Protection Agency ... 

A strict liability regime has also been adopted by several international legal instruments, namely in the Council of Europe Convention (see 31.3.2.2), the UNIDROIT Convention (31.3.1.3) and the EC Directive for defective products (31.3.1.1). Such a regime is proposed to be adopted in the waste liability directive proposal (31.3.1.2) and in the draft HNS Convention (31.3.1.4). Also, the Commission Green Paper (31.3.3) clearly favors strict liability as a basis for liability on environmental damage. 

Dewees, D. (1992h) Tort law and the deterrence of environmental pollution. In Innovation in Environmental Policy, Economic and Legal Aspects of Recent Developments in Environmental Enforcement and Liability, ed.T. H.Tietenberg, pp. 139-64. Eiger, Brookfield. 

Trust fund A fund set up under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (or equivalent state Superfund law) to help pay for cleanup of hazardous waste sites and for legal action to force those responsible for them to clean them up. 

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