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EPA Issues New Drinking Water Health Advisory Levels for PFOA, PFOS, PFBS, and GenX
On June 15, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its issuance of lifetime drinking water health advisory levels (HALs) for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS)…
Continue Reading EPA Issues New Drinking Water Health Advisory Levels for PFOA, PFOS, PFBS, and GenXEnvironmental Protection Agency Seeks Comments on Draft Recommended Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for PFOA and PFOS
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the federal register its notice…
Continue Reading Environmental Protection Agency Seeks Comments on Draft Recommended Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality Criteria for PFOA and PFOSUSEPA’s National PFAS Datasets Compile and Integrate State and Federal Data, but Gaps Remain
The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has made available a collection of National PFAS Datasets…
Continue Reading USEPA’s National PFAS Datasets Compile and Integrate State and Federal Data, but Gaps RemainPFAS-related litigation continues to climb and to diversify as to claims and parties. See the…
Continue Reading State and Federal PFAS Litigation – 2019 to Q1 2022The Latest
PFAS-related litigation continues to climb and to diversify as to claims and parties. See the attached graphics, updated through the first quarter of 2022. We will continue to update these…
Continue Reading State & Federal PFAS Litigation – 2019 to Q1 2022Pennsylvania DEP Opens Public Comment on PFOA/PFOS Limits in Drinking Water
By Adam Cutler
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) has opened up a public comment process on…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania DEP Opens Public Comment on PFOA-PFOS MCLPFAS-related litigation continues to accelerate. As shown in the attached graphics, there were more than 2,000 cases in the Multi-District Litigation in the federal district court in South Carolina by…
Continue Reading State and Federal PFAS Litigation – 2019 to 2021Consistent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) PFAS Strategic Roadmap, EPA is just weeks away from issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate PFOA and PFOS as…
Continue Reading Coming (Very) Soon to an Environmental Investigation Near You….The federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requires that once every five years, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publish a list of unregulated contaminants to be monitored by…
Continue Reading EPA Publishes UCMR 5 Rule to Require Sampling and Monitoring of 29 PFASOn October 20, 2021, Delaware Governor John Carney signed into law House Bill 8, which is enacted as Delaware’s Drinking Water Protection Act (29 Del. C. §§ 8090-8094).
The…
Continue Reading Delaware’s Maximum Contaminant Levels for PFOA and PFOS Expected by this SummerPFAS Exposure Study Seeks Voluntary Participants from Bucks and Montgomery Counties
Researchers from RTI International (Research Triangle Institute), the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Temple University, and Brown University are seeking 1,000 adults and 300 children to participate in a per- and…
Continue Reading PFAS Exposure Study Seeks Voluntary Participants from Bucks and Montgomery CountiesThe bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“Infrastructure Act”) signed by President Biden on November 15, 2021 provides for $10 billion in funding to address PFAS contamination, nationwide. In…
Continue Reading $10 Billion Allocated to Addressing PFAS Under Bipartisan Infrastructure LawOn November 16, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (“EQB”) voted to approve the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (“PADEP”) proposed rule to set binding regulatory standards, known as maximum contaminant…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania EQB Approves PFOA and PFOS Limits in Drinking Water