Topic
PFAS
773 published works
Kelley Green Law
PFAS and TRI: More, Lots More, to Come
By Joseph J. Green, Zachary Lee
Given today’s incessant media coverage and regulatory attention to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and their widespread presence in a host of products, it may seem surprising at first that…
Defense Litigation Insider
The National Academy of Sciences Issues Report on PFAS Health Effects
The National Academy of Sciences—a private, non-profit organization—recently issued a report regarding committee findings on the human health effects from exposure to per-fluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are a…
Health Law Prof Blog
Fatal Fertilizer: PFAS Contamination of Farmland from Biosolids and Potential Federal Solutions
Molly Carey (Vermont Law School), Fatal Fertilizer: PFAS Contamination of Farmland from Biosolids and Potential Federal Solutions, Pace Envtl. L. Rev. (2022):Farmers across the country are increasingly discovering devastating levels…
The Nickel Report
EPA Publishes 2021 TRI Preliminary Dataset and Plans to Remove De Minimis TRI Reporting Exemption for PFAS
By Lydia González Gromatzky, Nancy B. Beck, PhD, DABT, Gregory R. Wall, Matthew Z. Leopold, Javaneh S. Tarter
On July 28, 2022, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the 2021 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) preliminary dataset that provides public access to data about chemical releases, waste management,…
Food Safety News
Some city water utilities have bad news for customers because of ‘forever chemicals’
By Dan Flynn
City water utilities as far-flung as Mobile, AL, Evanston, IL, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC, and Thorton, CO are scrambling to explain they are still selling a safe product.…
Food Safety News
Some city water utilities have bad news for customers because of ‘forever chemicals’
By Dan Flynn
City water utilities as far-flung as Mobile, AL, Evanston, IL, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC, and Thorton, CO are scrambling to explain they are still selling a safe product.…
Law & The Environment
The Battle Over PFAS Continues to Heat Up. The Assessment of Costs and Benefits Remains Undone.
By Seth Jaffe
Last month, EPA issued interim health advisories for PFOA and PFOS that took many people’s breath away. It is rather amazing how quickly we’ve moved from parts per billion past…
Defense Litigation Insider
US House Passes Legislation Requiring Extensive Reporting of PFAS by Department of Defense
Every year, the federal government passes the National Defense Authorization Act, allocating the budget for the Department of Defense (DoD). In this year’s bill, the US House of Representatives voted…
Kelley Green Law
EPA Expands List of PFAS Subject to Toxic Release Inventory Reporting
By Joseph J. Green, Zachary Lee
Earlier this week, on July 18, 2022, U.S. EPA issued a final rule that subjects five new per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) to the Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”) reporting requirements…
S&W Environmental, Natural Resources, Oil and Gas Law
New PFAS/PFOS Regulations May Reopen Sites
By Chris Colyer
by Mitchell J. Klein Environmental practitioners are well aware of the astonishing breadth and scope of the impacts resulting from the investigations into the ubiquitous presence of the so-called “forever…