definiens: shall mean any applicable federal, state and local law, ordinance, rule orregulation of any nation or government whether federal, state, municipal, local, provincial, regional or other political subdivisionthereof that regulates, fixes liability for, or otherwise relates to, the environment or workplace health and safety, including, withoutlimitation, the handling, use ( including use in industrial processes, in construction, as building materials, or otherwise ), treatment, storage presence, actual Release ( as defined below ) or threatened Release ( whether by disposal, a discharge into any water source orsystem or into the air, or otherwise ) of any Hazardous Materials ( as defined below ) . The term shall mean any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, migrating, dumping or disposing into theenvironment . The term shall mean any and all corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, associations and other entitiescontrolled by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries