I only hope, the delinked enviromental effects from their causer. Pretty annoying, if you walk with retaliation through a fire and your own teammates gets damage or a neutral.
I might be wrong, but from what I experienced, environmental effects does not trigger retribution. More than once I had my character be hit by oil (fossil strike) while standing in fire and I'd take both earth and fire damage, whereas the enemy would only take earth damage back.
I also used teleportation on an enemy and threw him on top of a high retribution enemy, causing both to take physical damage. Since the primary target didn't have retribution, I didn't take any retribution damage
