The new coronavirus may cause environmental compliance challenges for companies—but most environmental statutes include exemptions that could apply to the pandemic, attorneys at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP say.
- Many of these exemptions have followed disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, write Brian D. Israel, chair of Arnold & Porter’s Environmental Practice Group, and Michael B. Gerrard, a professor and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, and senior counsel in the firm’s New York office, in a Practitioner Insights column.
- Under the Clean Air Act, facilities can get emissions waivers for...