The Environmental Liability Act (Umwelt-HG) regulates the civil liability of facility operators for environmental damage. It also addresses the insurability of environmental risks. Specifically, it clarifies issues related to liability limitations, statutes of limitations, information rights of victims, and options for insurance coverage provisions. The commentary serves as an excellent practical aid for legal advice and judicial dispute resolution. This established standard work particularly focuses on liability and insurance case law. The second edition takes into account the effects of the reform of obligations and the reform of tort law on environmental liability, the connections to environmental information law, the new EU directive on environmental liability for the prevention and remediation of environmental damage, as well as current liability issues.