Companies should stay abreast of fast-moving changes to federal, state, and local regulatory stay-at-home orders and compliance guidance.

While the most important consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are undoubtedly the public health impacts, the pandemic is also having unprecedented effects on global business operations and supply chains. This Client Alert examines how these effects may prevent, hinder, or alter a company’s ability to comply with local, state, and federal environmental laws, regulations, agreements, consent decrees, permits, and other requirements with reference to five questions for in-house counsel and environmental managers to consider when evaluating the unprecedented circumstances posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.