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On March 26, 2020, as government officials issued a slew of stay-at-home orders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published an emergency policy memorandum describing how the agency would exercise its enforcement discretion during the COVID-19 crisis.¹

The COVID-19 global pandemic has severely disrupted global and domestic M&A activity. Still, parties continue to identify strategic transactions, and one open question is how to properly due diligence environmental liabilities while living in a COVID-19 world…

On April 10, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Land and Emergency Management released “Interim Guidance on Site Field Work Decisions Due to Impacts of COVID-19” (“Guidance”).¹

The Federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency under the Department of Homeland Security, released advisory guidance on March 19, 2020, and updated the guidance on March 23, to help state and local governments identify essential business operations that remain exempt from shelter in place or other restrictions imposed as a result of COVID 19…

A number of environmental, health, and safety regulatory agencies are beginning to recognize that companies are challenged in their ability to meet deadlines, and no doubt more will follow.

Companies with environmental compliance obligations should think carefully about and plan ahead for how the coronavirus outbreak might affect their ability to comply…