EH&S: Environment

Content Overview

Our EH&S: Environment topic focuses on environmental laws and regulations aimed at reducing the impact of facilities on the physical environment like soil, climate, water supply and public health. Specific facility related requirements are usually recorded in an environmental permit.

Legislation imposes obligations on:

• Air emissions (pollutants/noise/odor/dust/light/radiation)
• Waste management (solid and hazardous waste; prevention, storage, transport, treatment)
• Water use and discharge (sewage/effluent/stormwater and spills) 
• Soil pollution 
• Hazardous material management (storage and handling)
• Energy management (energy use and efficiency)
• Emergency preparedness (prevention of and response to accidental release of chemicals/liquids/waste
• Food waste

Facilities we focus on are product manufacturing facilities (e.g. electronics). We also cover offices (including their restaurants and cafeteria), R&D laboratories, small and medium-sized combustion plants.

Subtopics of EH&S (Environment) include:

• Air including emissions, light, noise, odor, and radiation pollution
• Chemicals in EH&S: Environment
• Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)
• Energy including its use, energy efficiency (of buildings/production processes), and renewable energy
• General-Emergency Preparedness & Response, Environmental Crime, Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Nature Protection, Spatial Planning, and Development
• Phytosanitation
• Pollution including soil pollution
• Waste including food and hazardous waste
• Water including its use, discharge, management, and pollution

Coverage Included

Our regulatory content in C2P is historically comprehensive with a robust QA process to ensure quality, consistency and accuracy. Below is a high level summary of our coverage for this topic:

• Amsterdam (Netherlands): 2025 Waste Tax and Industrial Cleaning Duty Ordinance, December 2024
• Canada: Environmental Protection Act, c. 33, 1999
• Canada: Environmentally Sound Management of Chemical Substances in the Chemicals, Plastics and Rubber Sectors, Code of Practice, February 2024
• Canada: Designation of Certain Excluded Classes of Projects from Environmental Impact Assessment, Order SOR/2025-60
• ​​China: Ecological and Environmental Code, Draft Code, April 2025
• Denmark: Environmental Requirements for Medium-sized Combustion Plants, Executive Order No. 1408, 2023
• Denmark: Energy Labelling of Buildings, Order No. 549, 2023
• EU: Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) 2010/75/EU
• EU: Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) 2010/75/EU and Other – Amendment – (on emission limits, planning and operator conformity) Directive (EU) 2024/1785
• EU: Waste Directive, 2008/98/EC
• France: Analysis of PFAS in Aqueous Discharges from Installations Classified for Environmental Protection, Guidance Document, February 2024
• France: Approving the List of Industrial Sites for the Accelerated Connection of Renewable Energy Installations to the Public Electricity Transmission Network, Decree No. 2024-281
• Italy: Promotion of the Use of Energy from Renewable Sources, Decree, August 2024
• New York (USA): PFAS Discharge Disclosure Act, Senate Bill 227B, January 2023
• Spain: Air Quality, Decree 34/2023
• USA: National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution, Plan, EPA 530-R-24-006, November 2024
• USA: Clean Air Act including Amendments (CAAA), 42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq., 1990
• China: Environmental Protection Law, 2014
• Russian Federation: Approving Criteria for Classification of Industrial Activities Having a Negative Impact on the Environment, Resolution No. 1029/2015
• UK: Environmental Targets (Fine Particulate Matter) (England) Regulations, SI No. 2023/96
• UK: Pollution Prevention for Businesses, Guidance Document, Revision, May 2023
• Ontario (Canada): Spill Prevention and Contingency Plans under the Environmental Protection Act, Regulation, O. Reg. 224/07, 2007
• Taiwan: Wastewater Effluent Discharge Standards, 2019
• Thailand: Controlling Wastewater from Buildings, Announcement, B.E. 2567, 2024
• Thailand: Management of Waste or Unused Materials, Announcement, B.E. 2566, 2023
• Turkey: Industrial Emissions Management, Regulation, January 2025
• Vietnam: Water Resources Management and Licensing, Decree No. 02/2023/ND-CP
• Vietnam: Water Resources, Law No.28/2023/QH15
• Washington (USA): Air Quality Fees, Rule, WAC 173-455, 2023