Environmental Rule definition

Environmental Rule means any Governmental Rule that relates to (a) Hazardous Substances or the Release or threat of Release of Hazardous Substances, (b) pollution or protection of the Environment, (c) any Hazardous Activity, or (d) human health and safety, the promotion of safe and healthful working conditions or the reduction of occupational safety and health hazards, together with all rules, regulations and orders issued under the foregoing.
Environmental Rule means any Governmental Rule which relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution or protection of the environment, natural resources or public health or safety, including without limitation any Governmental Rule relating to the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release, transport or disposal of Hazardous Substances, together with all rules, regulations and orders issued thereunder, as any of the same may be amended.
Environmental Rule means any Law that relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution, restoration, or protection of the environment (including ambient air, indoor air, water vapor, surface water, groundwater, wetlands, drinking water supply, land surface, or subsurface strata and biota), and natural resources, including any Law relating to the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release or threatened release, transport, handling, presence, recycling, or disposal of, or exposure to Hazardous Substances and any common laws of nuisance, negligence and strict liability relating thereto, together with all rules, regulations and orders issued thereunder, as any of the same may be amended.

Examples of Environmental Rule in a sentence

  • Study and advance the conceptual development of environmental law – WCEL will research the application of new or emerging international and national legal and governance instruments and principles, including the Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development, the Earth Charter, the World Declaration on Environmental Rule of Law, the principle of non-regression and progression, and the principle of resilience.

  • Affordable and clean energy; 69 Dhvani Mehta, The Environmental Rule of Law in India, University of Oxford, 2017.

  • Krishna Prasad Subedi, ‘Environmental Rule of law as a Key to Sustainable Development and Environmental Sustainability: Nepalese Perspective’, article prepared for the Global Symposium on Environmental Rule (2014), available at <http://www.unep.org/unea/docs/erl/ERoL-Key-SD- Environmental-Sustainability.pdf> (visited 10 June 2015) at 6.

  • BRUMMER, supra note 261, at 278 (positing that soft law can evoke hard law under the right circumstances and citing examples of reforms in the international surveillance and monitoring process).capture the position of hedge fund regulatory approach in broad terms, which offers a national overview, facilitates comparisons and complements such soft law developments.The current international soft law regime also provides important perspective for the appropriate balance on the RAC.

  • See also UNEP, Environmental Rule of Law: First Global Report, UNEP, Nairobi, 2019, pp.


More Definitions of Environmental Rule

Environmental Rule means any Governmental Rule in effect on or prior to the Closing Date that relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution, or protection of the environment, natural resources or public health or safety, including without limitation any Governmental Rule relating to the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release, transport, or disposal of Hazardous Substances and any common laws of nuisance, negligence, and strict liability relating to that Government Rule, together with all rules, regulations, and orders issued under that Governmental Rule, as any of them may have been amended through the Closing Date.
Environmental Rule means any Governmental Rule that relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution or protection of the environment, natural resources or public health, including without limitation any Governmental Rule relating to the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release, transport or disposal of Hazardous Substances and any common laws of nuisance, negligence and strict liability relating thereto, together with all rules, regulations and orders issued thereunder, as any of the same may be amended. “Hazardous Substance” means any substance that constitutes, in whole or in part, a pollutant, contaminant or toxic or hazardous substance or waste under, or the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release, transport or disposal of which is regulated by, any Governmental Rule.
Environmental Rule means any Governmental Rule which relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution or protection of the environment, including without limitation any governmental rule relating to the generation, use treatment, storage, release, transport or disposal of Hazardous Substances and shall specifically include, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Clean Water Act, also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq., as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, Publ. L. No. 100-4 (Feb. 4,1987), the Toxic Substances Xxxxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §0000 et seq., the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq., the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxx, 0 X.X.X. §000 et seq., the Safe Drinking Xxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §000x et seq., the Surface Mining Control and Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §0000 et seq., the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq., the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (“XXXX”), Public Law 99-499, 100 Stat. 1613, the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, 42 U.S.C. §11001 et seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq., and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (“OSHA”), 29 U.S.C. §655 and §657, as any of the same have been or may be amended, together will all rules, regulations and orders issued thereunder.
Environmental Rule means a rule the specific
Environmental Rule means a rule the specific intent of which is to protect the environment or reduce risks to human health from environmental exposure.
Environmental Rule means any Governmental Orders which relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution or protection of the environment, natural resources or public health or safety, including without limitation, any Governmental Orders relating to the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release, transport or disposal of Hazardous Substances and any common laws of nuisance, negligence and strict liability relating thereto, together with all rules, regulations and orders issued thereunder, as any of the same may be amended; and (ii) “Hazardous Substance” means any substance which constitutes, in whole or in part, a pollutant, contaminant or toxic or hazardous substance or waste under, or the generation, use, processing, treatment, storage, release, transport or disposal of which is regulated by, any Governmental Orders.
Environmental Rule means any Governmental Rule that relates to Hazardous Substances, pollution or protection of the Environment, natural resources, public health or safety, including any Governmental Rule relating to