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July 16, 2007

Directors' and Officers' Environmental Liability

Heightened awareness of environmental protection has focused legislative attention on corporate accountability. In keeping with the trend to improve corporate governance, a growing number of environmental statutory provisions have imposed environmental due diligence duties on directors and officers. Unwitting directors and officers can find themselves facing steep fines and even imprisonment for their corporation’s environmental transgressions.

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