The Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Damage Group comprises the largest assembly of companies in the world that is focused on natural resource damage and restoration and related environmental liability matters. Many hundreds of companies have participated in the Group and its activities worldwide. As the only group comprised of companies in multiple industry sectors focused on these policies and practices, this program constitutes a significant and unique resource for individual industrial companies and the industrial community at large.
The Group has assumed principal responsibility for coordinating industry positions on natural resource damage and liability since 1988 and it has acted as a clearinghouse for industry on wide-ranging issues that are related to these practice arenas (regulatory, legislative, judicial, and methodological).
With the advent of the European Commission’s consideration of an environmental liability regime for the European Union in the late 1990s, it was a natural progression for the Group to begin to monitor developments and provide support to its members and the EU industrial community at large as the proposed regime developed. The Group has since developed key partnerships with industrial associations in the EU, and worked to provide leadership and information through briefings and development of documents such as case studies to inform industry input, first to transposition, and now to implementation of the Environmental Liability Directive.
The Group’s member companies encompass all major industrial sectors. The Group operates entirely on consensus. While the Group does not publish a membership list, companies that have participated on the Group's "Executive Committee" are representative of the types of companies that make up the Group, including Alcoa, Astra-Zeneca, Boeing, Dupont, Georgia-Pacific, Potlatch, and those listed below.
Affiliates:
The Group established its Affiliates program in 2005 (formerly called Associates) to provide a mechanism for working more closely with individual experts and practitioner firms engaged in natural resource damage assessment and allied matters. The Group’s Affiliates include solo practitioners, law firms, consulting firms, insurers and financial institutions. By way of example, some of the Group's Affiliates are listed below.
Key Stakeholders (by invitation):
The Group works with diverse stakeholders on NRDAR issues. In 1999, the Group established its Industry/Trustee Standing Committee in order to provide a focal point for communications and practice exchange between the industrial community and US natural resource trustee departments/agencies. The Group invited the five US trustee departments/agencies (DOA, DOD, DOE, DOI and NOAA) to participate as well as the following industrial trade groups: ACC, API, NAM, NMA and the US Chamber of Commerce. We are proud to display the logos of some of these Key Stakeholders here.
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Industry's Leading NRDAR Group
