Collier Monograph: Environmental Issues in Bankruptcy Cases discusses how key provisions of the Bankruptcy Code affect the environmental liabilities of parties to bankruptcy proceedings and how courts have reconciled the competing goals of environmental law and bankruptcy law. Written by lawyers from the firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, the monograph puts environmental actions and obligations in perspective and offers a clear explanation of the effect of the bankruptcy filing. Appendices include the relevant policy pronouncements from the EPA (the guidance on participation in bankruptcy cases as well as the protocol for coordination of bankruptcy matters under CERCLA) and key provisions of the pertinent environmental statutes: CERCLA, RCRA and the Oil Pollution Act.
Adam Strochak, the principal author, is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office and has extensive experience in corporate restructuring as well as in environmental and insurance coverage matters. He is the co-author of the treatise Environmental Law in Real Estate and Business Transactions (LexisNexis Matthew Bender).
This title is the third in a series of pamphlets devoted to topical areas of interest to today's bankruptcy practitioners. More information on the preceding pamphlets in the series, Collier Monograph: Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Insolvency Cases Under Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code and Collier Monograph: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation in Bankruptcy is available here.