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LIVING WITH THE EARTH
CHAPTER 13
ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
& COMPLIANCE
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Objectives for this Chapter
A student reading this chapter will be able to:
1. Discuss how a law is made and describe the system of environmental laws.
2. List and describe the major components of the major federal environmental laws including: RCRA, CERCLA, EPCRA,SARA Title III, Pollution Prevention Act, CAA, CWA, SDWA, stormwater regulations, pesticide regulations, and underground storage tank regulations.
Objectives for this Chapter
A student reading this chapter will be able to:
3. Describe and discuss the major components of environmental compliance.
The Making of a Law
Bill is first introduced into house and senate;
Referred to subcommittee for review and support;
90% fail at this level
Recommended bills are brought forward for hearings and comment;
Committee meets to mark up (discuss) bill and vote on it;
If still found favorable, bill is sent to full chamber;
The Making of a Law (cont.)
The bill is then sent to the Rules committee of House where a time limit is set for debate and other rules are set.
The bill is also sent to the Senate where unrelated riders may be attached to a popular bill.
House and Senate usually make changes in the bill before passing, and the different versions are sent to a conference committee for resolution.
BILL
SENATE
HOUSE
Rules committee
BILL
BILL
Senate version
House version
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
The Making of a Law (cont.)
If a resolution is accepted and the same version is approved by both House and Senate, the bill moves forward to the President who may sign or veto it.
Congress can override a veto by 2/3rds majority, but this is difficult to do.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
BILL
SENATE
HOUSE
If both Chambers approve final version, the bill is sent forward to the president
Veto?
Sign?
PRESIDENT
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Common Themes Among Environmental Laws
EIGHT GENERIC COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS
1. Notification requirements
2. Discharge or waste controls
3. Process controls and pollution prevention
4. Product controls
5. Regulation of activities
6. Safe transportation requirements
7. Response and remediation requirements
8. Compensation requirements
Environmental Laws are Part of a System
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENCOMPASSES ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION THAT COMES FROM:
U.S. CONSTITUTION AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS
FEDERAL AND STATE STATUTES AND LOCAL ORDINANCES
REGULATIONS PUBLISHED BY FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES
PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS
COURT DECISIONS INTERPRETING THESE LAWS
THE COMMON LAW
Executive Orders
These are orders issued by the president and require federal facilities to comply and provide leadership in protecting the environment. More than 18 executive orders have been issued since 1970.
Common Law
A body of rules and principles that pertain to the government and the security of persons and property.
Basic rules originally developed in England and t ...
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1. Legal update February 2010 John Mitchell Head of Environment, Blake Lapthorn
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This arises out of the Hampton Review on better regulation. It’s the most significant development in Environmental Law in the last 6 months. Some bright spark decided that one way of making regulation more efficient was to cut out the courts, which take time and trouble to pilot a case through. Cynics would say, it’s a bit like “If you go to court you might lose, so let’s find a way of avoiding court” This sort of idea – fixed penalty notices – has been adopted in all sorts of areas of the criminal law and “civil sanctions” could be seen as riding the crest of the wave. However, some observers think that they may be slipping down the front of it, as several luminaries, including the DPP, are questioning quite where it is taking us in terms of civil liberties. [explain the proposal ] There was a consultation several months ago, which received a lukewarm reception and some stinging criticism. Last week, to a great fanfare, the government announced its response to the consultation and surprise surprise, the introduction of new regulations before Parliament to enable the new scheme to get off the ground with effect from 6 th April 2010. They have made some tweaks to the original proposal.
The point about incompatibility with human rights (and companies have human rights as much as humans) lay in the fact that although the legislation provides that all these sanctions can be appealed against, the one ground of appeal which was missing was that the defendant was not guilty of the offence for which the notice had been served. This minor technicality has, according to the Government, been remedied by adding a further ground of appeal called “for any other reason”. Sounds a bit like “oh well if you must”. I can’t give you the rest of the detail as the Government has not yet published the draft regulations. Overlapping regulators – NE said it was “dismayed” that the Government had not thought about this. The Government response was to take areas where high hazard was involved out of the regime (e.g. COMAH) but to leave all else in and to be dealt with by individually negotiated MOUs The calculation of VMPs has been simplified. The Government has added a limit to VMPs of £250,000. The intention therefore is that anything which would merit a fine of less than £250,000 (i.e. virtually all but catastrophic environmental offences) will be dealt with by means of civil sanctions.
One might ask, “why bother?” in view of the previous slide. However… I was in court on just before Christmas representing a company which was pleading guilty to two environmental offences. This guide was published last week. I mentioned it to the magistrates during my plea in mitigation…
The EDR were the most significant development in Environmental Law in the first six months of this year. Those of you who were at the may meeting will recall that I did a whole session on them. For those who were not there, this is a summary: They complement the contaminated land regime – whereby the polluter pays for environmental clean up: slow contamination under the contaminated land regime, catastrophic contamination under these regs Anyone who causes damage or thinks they are about to cause it has to report it to the regulator The regulator can then control and direct what is to be cleaned up, how it is to be cleaned up and the standard to which it is to be cleaned up. The directions and notices can be appealed against and co-authors of the damage can seek redress from each other. The remediation to be applied goes much further than under the contaminated land regime, as these regulations can require in effect that the public be compensated for the loss of environmental amenity, such as drinking water sources The regulations are complex, particularly in relation to: Identifying what is and what is not environmental damage Identifying what is and what is not regulated damage Identifying the correct regulator to give notice to – the potential regulators are listed on this slide The latter point has been picked up under this MOU. Obviously even the regulators were not entirely clear (despite the 150 page guidance issued by DEFRA). So this will have helped them to understand who should do what. But it won’t help the business on the street. 13 more pages of guidance in addition to the 150 pages produced by DEFRA and the 43 clauses and schedules of the regulations themselves. The regs are the government’s implementation in UK law of the Environmental Liability Directive. They were late in being implemented and the UK government was found guilty in the European Court a couple of months ago of failing to implement it within the timescale allowed by the EU. The “exemptions” are effectively environmental damage permitted in the public interest for oil
This has been bubbling around for years but has come into sharp relief in the last 12 months with these two cases. They typify the tension between regulatory law and the common law. Regulatory law is… The common law is… One aspect of the common law is the law of nuisance. Under the law of nuisance, an occupier of land who is affected by an act of nuisance (noise, smell, dust etc) from another piece of land can get an injunction. A codified version of that allows a local authority to issue an abatement notice instead of the occupier getting an injunction, but they have the same effect. Regulatory law forbids certain acts unless they are done in accordance with a permission issued by the regulator, so planning consent by the planning authority, environmental permit by the EA etc. What these cases say very clearly is that even if what you are doing is being done in accordance with the terms of some regulatory permission, if it is a nuisance it continues to be a nuisance and you can be stopped from doing it. This makes business planning in connection with any industry which can be associated with nuisance very difficult, especially as whether or not something is a nuisance can only be judged retrospectively – you have to go ahead and do it and run the risk that someone will stop you. It matters not also that you have been doing it for years and those who complain about it bought the affected land knowing that it was affected. I think that we will see more litigation like this in the future.