Strict Liability Based on Owning or Operating Property: What Every Company Needs to Know about Environmental Law

September 14, 2017
Association of Corporate Counsel
This presentation will provide an overview of liability for under environmental law based on owning and operating property. It will go over the basics of CERCLA, the key federal law on this issue, and how it broadly affects all parties that own or lease property. It will also discuss some basics regarding contractual allocation of environmental liabilities in contracts such as purchase agreements and leases.