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PFAS
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NY Disability Law Blog
Veterans Exposed to Forever Chemicals at Bases to Receive Justice
The Defense Department has released new data indicating that toxic levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) were detected in the drinking water near several military bases. PFAS take many years…
Defense Litigation Insider
California Takes Steps To Ban 12,000 Chemicals in Cosmetics; Cosmetic Companies Should Prepare for a Spike in Consumer Class Actions
The nationwide campaign against the production and use of perfluoroakyl and polyfluoroakyl-containing products continues in California, with the California assembly passing expansive legislation to ban the use of up to…
Defense Litigation Insider
Massachusetts Files Suit Against PFAS Manufacturers
Massachusetts has officially joined the growing coalition of states—including Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois—who have filed civil suit against the manufacturers and users of poly- and perfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals, also…
Environmental Law & Policy Monitor
EPA Sets Screening Levels for Five PFAS Compounds
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week added five PFAS chemicals for a total of six PFAS chemicals to a list of risk-based values. EPA uses these values to…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
How PFAS in Soil Affect Livestock in Trickle-Down Effect
PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, are a group of chemicals that have been used in a number of industries for many years. Unfortunately, it is now becoming more understood…
AD-ttorneys Law Blog
What Is a PFAS, and Why Should I Care? Part III – California’s Proposition 65
By Ryan Fischbach, Bethany Lukitsch, Matthew Thurlow, Theodore Weiss
In Part I and Part II of this blog series, we introduced and discussed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly referred to as “forever chemicals,” which have been recent targets…
Food Safety News
It’s time for Congress to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging
- OPINION - By Brian Ronholm Director of Food Policy at Consumer Reports, and Liz Hitchcock Director at Safer Chemicals Healthy Families The next time you order takeout at a favorite restaurant,…
Expert Institute Insights
Massachusetts Firefighters Sue Over Exposure to PFAS
The firefighters, who suffer from various forms of cancer, claim that the use of PFAS chemicals in the suits and foam was a “substantial factor and proximate cause of the…
AD-ttorneys Law Blog
What Is a PFAS, and Why Should I Care? Part II – The Threat to the Restaurant and Food Packaging Industries, and Potential Personal Injury Classes
By Bethany Lukitsch, Matthew Thurlow, Kamran Ahmadian
In our initial blog post, we introduced readers to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as “forever chemicals,” and predicted the rise of PFAS consumer class actions and increased regulatory…
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
States Continue to Implement Take-Back Programs for Aqueous Film Forming Foam
States Continue to Implement Take-Back Programs for Aqueous Film Forming Foam This summer, Indiana joins a handful of states that have implemented “take-back” programs to collect and dispose of aqueous…