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, or exposure to, any Hazardous Substance or(C ) noise, odour, indoor air, employee exposure, electromagnetic fields, wetlands, pollution, contamination or any injury or threat of injury to Persons or property relating to any HazardousSubstance . As used herein, the term means any obligations or liabilities(including any notices, claims, complaints, suits or other assertions of obligations or liabilities ) thatare : ( A ) related to the environment ( including on - site or off - site contamination by HazardousSubstances of structures, surface or subsurface soil or water ) ; and ( B ) based on ( I ) any provision ofEnvironmental Laws or ( II ) any order, consent, decree, writ, injunction or judgment issued orotherwise imposed by any Relevant Authority and includes : fines, penalties, judgments, awards, settlements, losses, damages, costs, fees ( including attorneys ’ and consultants ’ fees ), expenses anddisbursements relating to environmental matters ; defence and other responses to any administrative orjudicial action ( including notices, claims, complaints, suits and other assertions of liability ) relating toenvironmental matters ; and financial responsibility for ( x ) clean - up costs and injunctive relief, 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 andRecovery Act ( ) ; and any as that term is defined in the HazardousMaterials Transportation Act ( 49 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq . ), as amended ( including as those terms arefurther defined, construed, or otherwise used in rules, regulations, standards, orders, guidelines, directives, and publications issued pursuant to, or otherwise in implementation of, said Laws ) ; and anypollutant, chemical or substance that is subject to regulation, control or remediation under anyenvironmental Law, including any petroleum product or by - product, solvent, flammable or explosivematerial, radioactive material, asbestos, lead paint, polychlorinated biphenyls ( or PCBs ), dioxins, dibenzofurans, heavy metals, radon gas, greenhouse gas emissions, mould, mould spores, andmycotoxins or where has no legal meaning under the Laws of any jurisdictionin which [COMPANY] or any of its Subsidiaries operate, Hazardous Substance shall be deemed to include whatmost nearly approximates that term in that jurisdiction . As used herein, the term means anyspilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, placing, discarding, abandonment, or disposing into the environment ( including theplacing, discarding or abandonment of any barrel, container or other receptacle containing anyHazardous Substance or other material ) . As used herein, the term actions include the types of activities covered by CERCLA, RCRA, and other comparableEnvironmental Laws, and whether such activities are those that might be taken by a RelevantAuthority or those that a Relevant Authority or any other Person might seek to require of wastegenerators, 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 any material permit, license, authorisation or approval required under applicable Environmental Laws