Company: WBI
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0000950170-25-113383
Chunk: 229

Company: WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC
Filing Date: 2025-09-08
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 229
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 of our business and are generally not material to our operations. However, it is possible that substantial costs for compliance or penalties for non-compliance may be incurred in the future. It is also possible that other developments, such as the adoption of stricter environmental laws, regulations and enforcement policies, could result in additional costs or liabilities that we cannot currently quantify. Moreover, changes in environmental laws could limit our customers’ businesses or encourage our customers to handle produced water in other ways, which, in either case, could reduce the demand for our services and adversely impact our business. The Trump Administration has diverged and is expected to continue to diverge from the prior Biden Administration’s policy positions, which may result in new or amended policies, laws and regulations that are supportive of oil and natural gas development.

The following is a summary of the more significant existing environmental and occupational health and safety laws and regulations to which our business operations and the operations of our customers are subject.

Hazardous Substances and Hydrocarbon Wastes

Our operations are subject to environmental laws and regulations relating to the management and release of hazardous substances, non-hazardous wastes, hazardous wastes and petroleum hydrocarbons. These laws and regulations generally regulate the generation, storage, treatment, transportation and disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous waste and may impose strict liability and joint and several liability for the investigation and remediation of affected areas where hazardous substances may have been released or disposed.

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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), which is also known as Superfund, and comparable state laws impose liability, without regard to fault or the legality of the original conduct, on certain classes of persons that contributed to the release of a “hazardous substance” into the environment. These persons include the former and present owners and operators of the site where the release occurred and the transporters and generators of hazardous substances found at the site. Under CERCLA, such persons may be subject to joint and several liability and strict liability for the costs of investigating and remediating the hazardous substances that have been released into the environment and for damages to natural resources, and it is not uncommon for neighboring landowners and other third parties to file claims for personal injury and property damage allegedly caused by the hazardous substances released into the environment. We handle materials that may be regulated as hazardous substances as defined under CERCLA, or similar state statutes, in the course of our ordinary operations, but we are unaware of any liabilities for which we may be held