On March 12, 2024, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) approved the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (PADEP) proposal to amend the Land Recycling and Remediation Standards Act regulations under Chapter 250 of the Pennsylvania Code. Included in the rulemaking are cleanup standards for select new Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl…
Continue Reading PADEP Proposes Key PFAS Amendments to Act 2 RegulationsUSEPA announced today the intention, under Clean Water Act authority, to issue an information request…
Continue Reading USEPA Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Information Request to POTWsNew Jersey Finalizes Law Restricting PFAS in Firefighting Foam and Creating Take-Back Program
Last month, Governor Murphy signed a bill that affects the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl…
Continue Reading New Jersey Finalizes Law Restricting PFAS in Firefighting Foam and Creating Take-Back ProgramMaine and Minnesota Accepting Proposals Through March 1, 2024 for “Currently Unavoidable Use” Exemptions from Upcoming State Ban on PFAS-Containing Products
As we’ve posted here before, by statutory enactment, Maine intends to ban the sale…
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On February 8, 2024, EPA published a proposed rule to list nine PFAS, their salts and their structural isomers, as hazardous constituents under RCRA regulations. If the proposed rule is…
Continue Reading EPA Proposes to List Nine PFAS as RCRA Hazardous ConstituentsPFAS-related litigation continues to climb and to diversify as to claims and parties. See the attached graphics, updated through the fourth quarter of 2023. We will continue to update these…
Continue Reading State and Federal PFAS Litigation – 2019 to Q4 2023Recent Progress Report Issued by EPA Foreshadows Landmark Year for Federal Regulation of PFAS
Soon after the Biden Administration took office, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a Strategic Roadmap highlighting the many ways it planned to “research, restrict, and remediate” per-and…
Continue Reading Recent Progress Report Issued by EPA Foreshadows Landmark Year for Federal Regulation of PFASDuPont Companies to Pay Delaware an Extra $25 Million Under 2021 PFAS Settlement
A recent DuPont settlement in Ohio triggers additional payments to Delaware under a 2021 agreement. In June 2021, (i) E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, (ii) Corteva, Inc.…
Continue Reading DuPont Companies to Pay Delaware an Extra $25 Million Under 2021 PFAS SettlementThe Sixth Circuit ruled that a complaint on which a trial court had certified a class that included every person subject to the laws of Ohio must be dismissed. The…
Continue Reading Hardwick Ohio PFAS Class Action Dismissed for Lack of JurisdictionIn September, NJDEP’s Contaminated Site Remediation and Redevelopment program (CSRR) issued new guidance (the Administrative Guidance for Green, Sustainable, and Resilient Remediation) encouraging the use of green and sustainable…
Continue Reading NJDEP Issues Guidance for Green, Sustainable, and Resilient RemediationEPA Finalizes Rule Removing De Minimis Exemptions, Subjecting Companies to Enhanced PFAS Reporting and Notification Requirements
We reported earlier this year that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule would require stricter (1) reporting of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)…
Continue Reading EPA Finalizes Rule Removing De Minimis Exemptions, Subjecting Companies to Enhanced PFAS Reporting and Notification RequirementsPFAS-related litigation continues to climb and to diversify as to claims and parties. See the attached graphics, updated through the third quarter of 2023. We will continue to update these…
Continue Reading State and Federal PFAS Litigation – 2019 to Q3 2023In March 2022, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against L’Oreal U.S.A., Inc. alleging that the company…
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