Environmental Emergencies: Legal Strategies for Managing Risk
Mitigating Liability and Meeting Regulatory Requirements Before, During and After an Environmental Crisis
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Recorded event now available
This CLE webinar will prepare counsel for the potential legal and business impacts of an environmental crisis and offer guidance on effective proactive and reactive steps, such as environmental risk planning, required notifications and shareholder communications, interacting with investigators, and dealing with lawsuits.
Description
Environmental emergencies come in a variety of forms—a sudden spill into a waterway, an explosion or fire releasing pollutants into the air, or discovery of a previously unknown contaminant threatening soil or groundwater.
An environmental crisis demands legal and business response: notifying environmental regulators and emergency response, ensuring worker and area safety, implementing control and clean-up, as well as dealing with potential third-party tort claims, shareholder communication and insurance coverage.
Government regulators also have specific requirements for businesses to assess and manage environmental risks and plan for environmental emergencies that may occur.
Listen as our authoritative panel of environmental attorneys examines the regulatory and legal requirements for advance risk management planning and notification compliance. The panel will also discuss managing the legal and business issues that arise during and after the emergency, including disclosure requirements, interaction with investigators, and third-party lawsuits.
Outline
- Regulatory requirements
- From environmental laws and regulations
- From worker safety/OSHA laws and regulations
- Notification
- Sources of notification requirements
- Who must be notified
- Notification processes
- Legal and business management after the emergency
- Interacting with state and federal investigators
- Third-party tort suits
- Communication
- Shareholder and public disclosure
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What statutory liabilities can a business incur due to environmental emergencies?
- What types of private claims are typically seen in response to an environmental crisis?
- What strategies should businesses and their counsel employ to meet the regulatory requirements from environmental laws and worker safety/OSHA regulation?
- When and to whom must companies provide notification of an environmental emergency—and what information should be provided?
Faculty
Ronald J. Tenpas,
Partner
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D.C.
He served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In that role, he oversaw civil and criminal litigation arising under more than 150 environmental and natural resources laws and advised Cabinet and White House officials. He co-chairs the firm's Environmental and Climate Change Practices.
John J. McAleese, III,
Partner
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia
He concentrates on environmental matters, advising on environmental issues that arise in business transactions involving real estate and counseling on compliance with federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations. He represents clients in civil and administrative environmental litigation such as cost recovery actions, government enforcement actions, permit appeals and toxic torts.
Jonathan L. Snare,
Partner
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D.C.
He focuses on labor-related legislative, regulatory, and administrative issues at the local, state, and federal level. He has handled occupational safety and health (OSHA), mine safety and health (MSHA), wage and hour (FLSA), OFCCP/EEO, whistleblower, labor management/union disclosure and elections (OLMS), immigration, and congressional investigations and oversight matters.
Ordering
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Customer Reviews
The speakers were very well informed and knowledgeable.
Geoffrey Peck
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Very convenient, quick and thorough, with no wasted time.
James O'Gallagher
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Great program. All three speakers were very knowledgeable and had smooth deliveries.
John Bowers
Fortune 100 Company
The best teleconference I have experienced — bar none. Well done in every respect.
Jake Jacobson
Osborne Construction Co.
Cutting edge information from people who are in the field.
John McGowan
Donahue Tucker & Ciandella
Environmental Law Advisory Board
Partner
Allen Matkins
Partner
Loeb & Loeb
Of Counsel
Stoel Rives
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Partner
Arnold & Porter
Partner
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
Partner
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Partner
Bryan Cave