Polluting Substance definition

Polluting Substance means all pollutants, contaminants or chemicals or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes and shall include, without limitation, any flammable explosives, radioactive materials, oil, hazardous materials, hazardous or solid wastes, hazardous or toxic substances or related materials defined in CERCLA, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, RCRA, the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as any of the same are hereafter amended, and in the regulations adopted and publications promulgated thereto; provided in the event any of the foregoing Environmental Laws is amended so as to broaden the meaning of any term defined thereby, such broader meaning shall apply subsequent to the effective date of such amendment and, provided further, to the extent that the applicable laws of any state establish a meaning for “hazardous substance,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous material,” “solid waste” or “toxic substance” that is broader than that specified in any of the foregoing Environmental Laws, such broader meaning shall apply.

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Polluting Substance means all pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes and shall include, without limitation, any flammable explosives, radioactive materials, oil, hazardous materials, hazardous or solid wastes, hazardous or toxic substances or related materials defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, and the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as any of the same are hereafter amended, and in the regulations adopted and publications promulgated thereto; provided, in the event any of the foregoing Environmental Laws is amended so as to broaden the meaning of any term defined thereby, such broader meaning shall apply subsequent to the effective date of such amendment and, provided, further, to the extent that the applicable laws of any state establish a meaning for “hazardous substance,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous material,” “solid waste,” or “toxic substance” which is broader than that specified in any of the foregoing Environmental Laws, such broader meaning shall apply.

Polluting Substance means any substance which exhibits a characteristic that has an adverse impact on, or is hazardous to, human health and/or to the environment.

Examples of Polluting Substance in a sentence

• Borrowers further agree promptly to undertake and diligently pursue to completion any prudent, legally required or authorized remedial containment and cleanup action in the event of any release or discharge or threatened release or discharge of a Polluting Substance on, upon, into or from the Collateral.

• To the extent any such Polluting Substance is located therein or thereunder that either (i) subjects the property to Lien or (ii) requires removal to safeguard the health of any Person, the Company shall remove, or cause to be removed, such Lien and such Polluting Substance at the Company's expense.

• Borrowers further agree promptly to undertake and diligently pursue to completion any appropriate and legally required or authorized remedial containment and cleanup action in the event of any release or discharge or threatened release or discharge of a Polluting Substance on, upon, into or from the Collateral.

• Mortgagor hereby grants to Mortgagee a license to enter the Mortgaged Property and remove any Polluting Substance that is in material contravention of any applicable Environmental Law from the Mortgaged Property.

• Each Loan Party further agrees promptly to undertake and diligently pursue to completion any appropriate and legally required or authorized remedial containment and cleanup action in the event of any release or discharge or threatened release or discharge of a Polluting Substance on, upon, into or from the Collateral.

More Definitions of Polluting Substance

Polluting Substance means any hazardous, ignitable, corrosive, caustic, reactive, toxic, or polluting waste or substance including, but not limited to, any of the following: “hazardous waste” (as defined in the regulations adopted under RCRA, defined below); oil or petroleum products; “chemical liquids or solid, liquid, or gaseous products” (as those terms are used in the CT Environmental Act, defined below); asbestos; polychlorinated biphenyls; formaldehyde compounds, explosives, and radioactive materials. The term “Environmental Law” shall mean any statutory, regulatory, or decisional law pertaining to protection of the environment or to any Polluting Substance, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”); the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (“RCRA”); and Title 22a “Environmental Protection” of the Connecticut General Statutes; including particularly Sections 22a-448 through 22a-457 of the Connecticut General Statutes (the “CT Environmental Act”); as any of them may be amended from time to time, with the regulations promulgated thereunder. The term “release” as used herein shall include both the meaning specified in CERCLA and a “spill” as defined in Section 22a-452c of the Connecticut General Statutes. In the event any Environmental Law is amended to broaden the meaning of any term defined thereby, such broader meaning shall apply subsequent to the effective date of such amendment.

Polluting Substance means any substance, whether liquid or solid, that is capable of damaging marine waters or the environment and includes but is not limited to oil, sewage and solid waste;

Polluting Substance means any toxic, polluting waste or substance, determined by any agency with jurisdiction to pose a present or potential hazard to human health or the environment.

Polluting Substance shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.6(a).

Polluting Substance means a substance that, if added to a water body, is likely to degrade or alter or form part of a process of degradation or alteration of the physical, chemical or biological conditions of the water body to an extent that is detrimental to its use by plants, animals and humans;

Polluting Substance means any substance whether gaseous, liquid or solid, that could, in the opinion of the minister, substantially impair the usefulness of land, water or air if it were to escape into the air, or were spilled on or were to escape onto any land or into any body of water.” WMA, s.12(1)

Polluting Substance means any relevant natural or artificial substance or object (whether in a solid, liquid, gas, vapour or other form) that is potentially capable (alone or in combination) of causing harm to man or any other living organism or of damaging the environment, including but not limited to the provisions defined under the European Environmental Liability Directive 2004/35/EC; 119005-4-140-v7.3 - 11 - 66-40539663