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The Battle of Green & Red: Effect of Bankruptcy on Obligations to Clean Up Contaminated Property

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Hosted By : The Beard Group Law and Business Publishers and The Troubled Company Reporter

This conference will include:

Bankruptcy law which allows the free sale and assignment of assets often clashes head-on with some of the key elements of environmental law.

How can a troubled company that owns contaminated property reorganize despite its looming environmental liabilities? And why dont automatic stays and pre-petition claims shield debtors in Chapter 11 proceedings?

Invest in this Audio CD (recorded November 2007) and hear from national expert Joel Gross, former Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and now a member of Arnold & Porters bankruptcy and environmental practices. He will explain the existing rules, outline legal options, and update you on the latest developments in the on-going tug-of-war between bankruptcy and environmental laws.

Youll cover:

5 key principles for understanding interactions between environmental and bankruptcy laws
Why bankruptcy is no excuse for violating environmental standards
Brief primer on CERCLA (Superfund) requirements for clean-up of contaminated property
How liability can be triggered just by deciding to stop operating
Who pays for clean-up when the polluter is insolvent?
Is property abandonment a viable option?
How are environmental liens addressed in bankruptcy?
Impact of the recent Atlantic Research Corp. Supreme Court decision
Unresolved issues still confronting legal decision-makers
Strategies for todays debtors facing environmental liabilities

Speaker(s):

Joel M. Gross
Arnold & Porter LLP

Joel Gross is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Arnold & Porter, and a member of both the firms environmental practice group as well as its bankruptcy group. Before joining Arnold & Porter in 2000, he was the Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section at the Department of Justice. Joel advises clients on compliance strategies that can minimize the risk of enforcement actions, and has represented a wide range of clients in connection with ongoing civil and or criminal enforcement actions under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. He also represents clients dealing with and seeking innovative approaches to resolve remediation and natural resource damages liabilities arising from contaminated sites. He has a special interest in the interaction of the environmental laws and the bankruptcy laws and has represented both debtors and creditors in connection with environmental disputes in bankruptcy proceedings around the country.

Before joining Arnold & Porter, Joel worked for 17 years in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Department of Justice, where he was heavily involved in some of the most significant environmental litigation of the 1980s and 1990s. For the last five years of his tenure, he was Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section, the largest litigation section in the Department of Justice, with 160 attorneys. In that capacity, he was intimately involved in setting and implementing the federal governments environmental enforcement policies and priorities. Joels responsibilities included the entire range of federal environmental enforcement litigation, including cases under Superfund, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The Battle of Green & Red: Effect of Bankruptcy on Obligations to Clean Up Contaminated Property


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