Policy as Adopted by the ABA House of Delegates

 

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

 

Sponsors:
American Bar Association
Standing Committee on Environmental Law
Section of Environment, Energy & Resources
Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Section of Business Law
Section of Tort and Insurance Practice

RESOLVED, that the American Bar Association recommends that federal, state, local and territorial legislative bodies, departments and agencies responsible for environmental protection adopt and implement legal and policy incentives designed to support and encourage businesses, governmental agencies, and other entities subject to environmental regulation to implement voluntary environmental management systems ("EMS").

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the American Bar Association encourages federal, state, local and territorial legislative bodies, departments and agencies as well as businesses, governmental agencies and other entities subject to environmental regulation to recognize and champion voluntary EMS as an increasingly important means of enhancing compliance assurance and environmental stewardship supplementing existing and future environmental control regulations and enforcement.

Adopted by the ABA House of Delegates, August 6, 2001, Chicago, IL.

For a copy of the complete report, contact Carrie Coleman at scel@staff.abanet.org.

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