Environmental Audit Privilege & Immunity
Many companies conduct an environmental compliance audit to identify areas of non-compliance and to address the identified areas. The MDEQ recognizes the importance of these audits. As a method of encouraging environmental compliance audits, the MDEQ gives companies incentives to conduct and disclose the audit results by offering immunity against violation, fines, and penalties. Environmental compliance audits are internal evaluations with the purpose of identifying past or c