Environmental Protection Laws means any law, statute or regulation enacted by any jurisdiction in connection with or relating to the protection or regulation of the environment, including, without limitation, those laws, statutes and regulations regulating the disposal, removal, production, storing, refining, handling, transferring, processing or transporting of hazardous or toxic substances, and any orders, decrees or judgments issued by any court of competent jurisdiction in connection with any of the foregoing.

Environmental Protection Laws means all Applicable Laws now or hereafter (if affecting pre-Closing periods) in effect relating to (a) the protection of human health or the environment, or occupational health and safety, (b) classification, regulation, listing or defining of hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, hazardous materials, wastes, pollutants or contaminants, (c) the investigation, clean-up and abatement, removal action, remedial action or any other response to a release, or threatened release, of any Hazardous Substances to the environment, (d) any emission of air pollutants or direct or indirect discharge of pollutants or waste, (e) the generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, processing, handling, use, existence, spill, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Substance, and (f) the manufacture, import, distribution or sale of any Hazardous Substances, including, without limitation, (i) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 0000 (“XXXXXX”), 00 X.X.X. §0000 et seq.; (ii) the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq; (iii) the Hazardous Materials Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §0000 et seq.; (iv) the Clean Xxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §0000 et seq.; the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq.; the Toxic Substances Xxxxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §0000 et seq.; and (v) the Occupational Safety and Health Act (“OSHA”), 29 U.S.C. §651 et seq.; and each state or local law corresponding thereto all as amended, modified or revised as of the Closing Date.

Environmental Protection Laws means all federal, state, local and foreign laws, statutes, regulations having the force and effect of law, permits, court decrees, judgments, injunctions and written orders concerning (i) public health and safety relating to exposure of humans to toxic or hazardous substances or otherwise relating to Regulated Substances or (ii) pollution or protection of the environment or natural resources, including, without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA") (42 U.S.C. Section 9601 ET SEQ.); the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. Section 1801 ET SEQ. ); the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA") (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 ET SEQ.); the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Section 1251 ET SEQ.); the Safe Drinking Water Act (14 U.S.C. Section 1401 ET SEQ.); the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. Section 2601 ET SEQ.), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. Section 136 ET SEQ.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 ET SEQ.); the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. Section 11001-11005, 11021-11023, and 11041-11050); the Xxxxxx-Cologne Water Quality Act (California Water Code Section 13000-13999.19); the Hazardous Waste Control Law (California Health & Safety Code Section 25100-25250.25); the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (California Health & Safety Code Section 25249.5-25249.13); California Health & Safety Code Section 25280-25299.81 (regarding Underground Storage of Hazardous Substances) and Section 25500-25545 (regarding Hazardous Materials Inventories and Emergency Plans); the Hazardous Substance Account Act (California Health & Safety Code Section 25300-25393); and California Health & Safety Code Section 39000-44384 regarding Air Resources; in each case including the regulations promulgated thereunder, including, without limitation, the regulations promulgated by the South Coast Air Quality Management District; each as supplemented or amended from time to time.

Examples of Environmental Protection Laws in a sentence

The Company shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary to, comply with all Environmental Protection Laws in effect in each jurisdiction where it is doing business and where the failure to comply with which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, permit itself to be subject to any liability under any Environmental Protection Laws that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Lessee shall give any and all notices of any Lessee Related Environmental Problem required by applicable Environmental Protection Laws, including, without limitation, any notice required by Section 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq.) and any notice required by Sections 13271 or 13272 of the California Water Code, as each may be amended from time to time.
Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is subject to any liability under any Environmental Protection Laws that, in the aggregate for all such liabilities, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No Hazardous Materials or other material used in or generated by the Business or any of the Assets have been or are currently placed, used, stored, treated, manufactured, disposed of, released, discharged, spilled or emitted by the Company in violation of any applicable Environmental Protection Laws.

More Definitions of Environmental Protection Laws

Environmental Protection Laws means all applicable principles of common law and equity and all applicable federal, state, provincial, municipal and local statutes, codes (having the force of law), ordinances, decrees, rules, regulations and by-laws, and judicial, arbitral, administrative, ministerial, departmental or regulatory judgments, orders, decisions, rulings, awards, policies (having the force of law), guidelines (having the force of law) and other requirements of any Governmental Authority, at any time in force or effect, as at the date of this Agreement that relate to the environment, health, occupational health and safety, the transportation of dangerous goods or the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, discharge, emission, release, destruction, packaging, containment, transport, handling, clean-up or other remediation or corrective action of any Hazardous Materials;

Environmental Protection Laws means all applicable laws, statutes, regulations decrees, judgments and orders now or hereafter in effect relating to the protection or regulation of the environment, to human health and safety or to any emission, discharge, generation, processing, storage, holding, treatment, spill, use, abatement, existence, release, threatened release, disposal, removal, handling, remediation or transportation of any Hazardous Substances, including, without limitation, (i) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. ss.9601 et seq.; (ii) the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S.C. ss.6901 et seq; (iii) the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. ss.1801 et seq.; (iv) the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. ss.1251 et seq.;(v) the Occupational Safety and Health Act ("OSHA"), 29 U.S.C. ss.651 et seq.; and (vi) all other applicable laws, statutes, regulations, decrees, judgments and orders (whether foreign or domestic, or federal, state or local) which classify, regulate, list or define hazardous substances, materials, wastes, contaminants, pollutants and/or the Hazardous Substances.

Environmental Protection Laws means all federal, state, local and foreign laws, statutes, regulations having the force and effect of law,

Environmental Protection Laws means any and all laws, statutes, rules, regulations, and judicial interpretation thereof of the United States, of any state in which the Company Assets, or any portion thereof, is located, and of any other governmental or quasi-governmental authority having jurisdiction, that relate to the prevention, abatement, and/or elimination of pollution and/or protection of the environment, including, but not limited to, those federal statutes commonly known as the Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1970, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, together with all applicable state statutes serving any similar or related purpose. "Third Party Claims" means any and all actions, claims, demands or proceedings by any person or entity other than the Parties hereto or their respective affiliates which give rise to a right of indemnification under this Agreement provided that such claims are not precipitated as a result of the actions of the Party seeking indemnity hereunder with respect to such claim. Submission of reports required by law shall not be considered to be actions of a party seeking indemnity hereunder which precipitated a claim arising from such reports. This Section 19

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