A Lender's Guide to Environmental Liability Management

A Lender's Guide to Environmental Liability Management
Author: Thomas M. Missimer
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1996-06-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780873719940

Learn how to handle the uncertainty associated with environmental liability in A Lender's Guide to Environmental Liability Management. This concise, nontechnical handbook provides detailed information on how these ever-present liabilities can be managed effectively. It gives you the facts you need to explore lending opportunities in new areas while ensuring that your institution operates without unnecessary exposure to financial loss. This much-needed guide provides down-to-earth explanations of the liabilities arising from environmental problems, the science behind these liabilities, and the methods that lenders should implement to minimize financial risk - all without a single mathematical or scientific equation. The guide, divided into six main sections, is filled with must-have information focusing on o environmental law and the lender o the science of soil and groundwater contamination o recommendations for lending institutions' environmental policies o methods for management of contamination liability o techniques for management of contaminated sites o and the lender's role in trusts and financial management. Become environmentally literate and improve your financial decision-making outcomes with A Lender's Guide to Environmental Liability Management. This extremely useful and practical book will save you worry, time, and money.

Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions

Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions
Author: Joel S. Moskowitz
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780735528215

Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions is a must-have guide to managing risk of environment liabilities in real property transactions. It gives you excellent advice on how to conduct due diligence, hire experts, and discover tell-tale signs of environmental trouble. You'll find in-depth coverage of liability defenses, how to limit environmental exposure, and how to manage contaminated property. New sections include information on electromagnetic fields, lead and radon, liability of trustees, and a discussion of different types of insurance. The book also features numerous forms, checklists, and practice pointers.

Environmental Liabilities

Environmental Liabilities
Author: United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2005
Genre: Hazardous waste site remediation
ISBN:

Environmental Liabilities

Environmental Liabilities
Author: John B. Stephenson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2005-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781422302675

The burden of cleaning up Superfund & other haz. waste sites is increasingly shifting to taxpayers, part'y. since bus. handling haz. sub. are no longer taxed under Superfund & the backlog of sites needing cleanup is growing. While environ. laws rely on the polluter paysÓ principle, the extent to which liable parties cease oper. or restructure can directly affect the cleanup costs faced by taxpayers. This report: determines how many bus. with liab. under fed. law for environ. cleanups have declared bankruptcy, & how many such cases the gov't. has pursued in court; identifies challenges the EPA faces in holding bankrupt & other financially distressed bus. resp. for their cleanup oblig.; & identifies actions that EPA could take to ensure that bus. pay for their cleanups.

Contaminated Site Liability

Contaminated Site Liability
Author: Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Task Group on Contaminated Site Liability
Publisher:
Total Pages: 11
Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN:

Contaminated Land

Contaminated Land
Author: Martin H. Warren
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The industrial history of Britain has left hugs areas of land contaminated by a range of substances that have adverse and widespread consequences for people and the environment. This new edition of "Contaminated Land", with the UK Environment Act, 1995, at its center, has been produced with the non-lawyer in mind, and is to act as a guide to the regime of Guidance and Regulations that have been introduced to tackle the legacy of historic contamination. Rather than being a legal treatise, it is a clear and comprehensive overview, providing readers with a practical and effective understanding of the general principles involved.

The Revitalization Handbook

The Revitalization Handbook
Author: U. S. Environmental Agency
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781505956696

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (the EPA) Office of Site Remediation Enforcement (OSRE) manages the enforcement of the nation's hazardous waste cleanup laws, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, commonly known as Superfund), the corrective action and underground storage tank cleanup provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA). The main objective of the cleanup enforcement program is to ensure prompt site cleanup and the participation of liable parties in performing and paying for cleanups in a manner that ensures protection of human health and the environment. Both CERCLA and RCRA are designed to protect human health and the environment from the dangers of improperly disposed hazardous substances. The RCRA programs focus on how wastes should be managed to avoid potential threats to human health and the environment. CERCLA, on the other hand, applies primarily when contamination has already occurred, resulting in releases of hazardous substances to the environment. Both programs, however, have cleanup authorities that address contaminated sites. This handbook summarizes the statutory, policy and guidance, and regulatory provisions that may be helpful to parties looking to manage environmental cleanup liability risks associated with the revitalization of contaminated sites. It is designed for use by parties involved in the assessment, cleanup, and revitalization of sites, and provides a basic description of the tools that may be available to address liability concerns.

Environmental Risk and Insurance

Environmental Risk and Insurance
Author: Chester A. Zagaski
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 682
Release: 1991-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780873713320

This is the only comprehensive text on the increasingly important subject of environmental risk and insurance. The author presents many risk and insurance issues from acid rain and global warming to toxic tort law developments and the crisis with workers' compensation insurance and pollution liability coverage. This volume is the product of nearly eight years of research, which included reviewing over 250,000 pages of laws, documents, reports, and notes, as well as countless hours of investigations, interviews, and research. Basic and advanced environmental liability and insurance principles are covered, along with suggestions for financing pollution cleanups and safety programs. A new method for restructuring and improving Superfund is presented after an in-depth discussion of pertinent legal and financial issues. The book also provides local, national, and international case histories demonstrating the kinds of difficulties encountered by businesses and citizens and the solutions they have sought. All of this information, combined with the valuable charts, appendices, specimens, contracts, sample insurance policies, model letters, and certificates, makes Environmental Risk and Insurance an unmatched reference source for businesses, institutions, and government agencies caught up in the midst of analyzing their environmental risk exposures.