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PFAS
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PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
EPA Announces Plan to Propose Removal of De Minimis TRI Reporting Exemption for PFAS in Summer 2022
On March 3, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”) National Analysis report. EPA’s report analyzes the most recent Toxic Release Inventory (“TRI”)…
The Nickel Report
EPA Puts Industry on Notice of Potential TSCA Violations for PFAS Contamination in Plastic Containers
By Elizabeth Reese, Nancy B. Beck, PhD, DABT, Gregory R. Wall, Matthew Z. Leopold
Does your company manufacture, process, distribute, use, or dispose of fluorinated high-density polyethylene (HDPE) containers and similar plastics? If so, it may be time for supply chain and process reviews…
Health Law Prof Blog
Symposium Hosted by Georgia State University College of Law – PFAS Dangers, Requirements, and Strategies (PFAS); March 29, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
Symposium Hosted by Georgia State University College of Law - PFAS Dangers, Requirements, and Strategies (PFAS); March 29, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.As journalists, regulators, and litigants across the country…
REACHblog™
Proposal To Ban “Forever Chemicals” In Firefighting Foams Throughout The EU
ECHA progresses a REACH restriction proposal on all PFAS in firefighting foams. Five different restriction options to protect human health and the environment from PFAS have been assessed. The preferred…
The Daily Intake
FDA Releases New PFAS Test Results
On February 24, 2022, FDA released PFAS test results from samples that were collected for the FY2021 regional collection of the Total Diet Study (a program to monitor nutrients and…
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. Alerts and Updates
Natural Resources Board Rejects PFAS Groundwater Standards, Moves Drinking Water and Surface Water Standards Forward
The post Natural Resources Board Rejects PFAS Groundwater Standards, Moves Drinking Water and Surface Water Standards Forward first appeared on Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
State and Federal PFAS Litigation – 2019 to 2021
PFAS-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…
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
Coming (Very) Soon to an Environmental Investigation Near You….
Consistent 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 hazardous…
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
EPA Publishes UCMR 5 Rule to Require Sampling and Monitoring of 29 PFAS
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…
PFAS and Emerging Contaminants
Delaware’s Maximum Contaminant Levels for PFOA and PFOS Expected by this Summer
On 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 Act…