Complex sentence: Environmental audit privilege, or environmental privilege, in United States environmental law, is an evidentiary privilege created under law of many states, protecting the results of companies' self-conducted environmental compliance audits from disclosure at trial, or in pretrial discovery.
Split into simpler sentences: Environmental audit privilege, or environmental privilege, in United States environmental law, is an evidentiary privilege created under state law. The privilege protects the results of companies' internal environmental compliance audits from disclosure at trial, or in pretrial discovery.