definiens: means all Laws ( including any common law ) relating to : ( A ) theprotection, investigation or restoration of the environment or natural resources, ( B ) the handling, use, presence, disposal, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Substance or ( C ) noise, odour, indoor air, employee exposure, electromagnetic fields, wetlands, pollution, contamination or any injury orthreat of injury to persons or property relating to any Hazardous Substance . As used herein, the term means any obligations or liabilities ( including any notices, claims, complaints, suits or other assertions of obligations or liabilities ) that are : ( A ) related to the environment ( including on - site or off - site contamination by Hazardous Substances of surface or subsurface soil or water ) ; and(B ) based upon ( I ) any provision of Environmental Laws or ( II ) any order, consent, decree, writ, injunctionor judgment issued or otherwise imposed by any Relevant Authority and includes : fines, penalties, judgments, awards, settlements, losses, damages, costs, fees ( including attorneys ’ and consultants’fees ), expenses and disbursements relating to environmental matters ; defence and other responses toany administrative or judicial action ( including notices, claims, complaints, suits and other assertions ofliability ) relating to environmental matters ; and financial responsibility for ( x ) clean - up costs and injunctiverelief, including any Removal, Remedial or Response actions, and ( y ) compliance or remedial measuresunder other Environmental Laws . As used herein, the term means any and any as those terms are defined in theComprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended ( ) ; any as that term is defined in the Resource Conservation and RecoveryAct ( ) ; and any as that term is defined in the Hazardous MaterialsTransportation Act ( 49 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq . ), as amended ( including as those terms are further defined, construed, or otherwise used in rules, regulations, standards, orders, guidelines, directives, andpublications issued pursuant to, or otherwise in implementation of, said Laws ) ; and any pollutant, chemicalor substance that is subject to regulation, control or remediation under any environmental Law, includingany petroleum product or byproduct, solvent, flammable or explosive material, radioactive material, asbestos, lead paint, polychlorinated biphenyls ( or PCBs ), dioxins, dibenzofurans, heavy metals, radongas, mould, mould spores, and mycotoxins . As used herein, the term means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, placing, discarding, abandonment, or disposing into the environment ( including the placing, discarding orabandonment of any barrel, container or other receptacle containing any Hazardous Substance or othermaterial ) . As used herein, the term actions include the types ofactivities covered by CERCLA, RCRA, and other comparable Environmental Laws, and whether suchactivities are those which might be taken by a Relevant Authority or those which a Relevant Authority orany other person 47 might seek to require of waste generators, handlers, distributors, processors, users, storers, treaters, owners, operators, transporters, recyclers, reusers, disposers, or other persons under or other actions . As used herein, the term means anymaterial permit, license, authorization or approval required under applicable Environmental Laws