Topic
Superfund
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Law & The Environment
EPA Proposes Safe Drinking Water Act Standards for PFAS: Forever Chemicals Will Lead to Forever Superfund Sites
By Seth Jaffe
Yesterday, EPA proposed to regulate certain PFAS under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA proposed Maximum Contaminant Level Goals for PFOA and PFOS of zero. It proposed Maximum Contaminant Levels…
Environmental Law Blog
The Lower Hackensack River Has Been Added to EPA’s National Priorities List – A Big Cleanup is Coming (Eventually)
For more than 200 years, the Lower Hackensack River (“River”) has been a hub for industrial operations in and around Bergen and Hudson Counties. More recently, concentrations of various contaminants…
Green Building Law Update
Phase 1 Standard for All Appropriate Inquiries in Limbo
It is hugely significant that the Phase l Environmental Site Assessment standard is in limbo because that assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 million commercial real…
Manufacturing Industry Advisor
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Reinstates the Superfund Tax, Starting July 1, 2022
By Amanda K. Beggs, Jordan J. Bergmann, Linda E. Benfield, Myles D. Berman
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed at the end of 2021, reinstates the Superfund chemical excise taxes under Sections 4661 and 4671 of the Internal Revenue Code. These taxes…
Gravel2Gavel
Superfund Chemical Taxes Reinstated
by Anthony B. Cavender Section 80201 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, Public Law 117-58, reinstates the long-expired federal excise taxes that are imposed on specified chemical…
Tax Talks
A New(ish) Chemical Excise Tax Effective July 2022
By Amanda H. Nussbaum, Aliza Cinamon, T.J. Ruane, Thomas Multari
After a more than 26 year hiatus, on July 1, 2022, the Superfund chemical excise tax (the “Superfund Chemical Tax”) will again become effective. This excise tax, reinstated by the…
E2 Law Blog
E2 Law Podcast: Episode 18 | ‘Fairness’ in Superfund Allocation Matters, Part 2B
In Part 2B of Greenberg Traurig Environmental Shareholder David Mandelbaum’s conversation with William Hengemihle of FTI Consulting on Superfund allocation disputes under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act…
E2 Law Blog
E2 Law Podcast: Episode 17 | ‘Fairness’ in Superfund Allocation Matters, Part 2A
Greenberg Traurig Environmental Shareholder David Mandelbaum is joined by William Hengemihle of FTI Consulting for a second conversation on Superfund allocation disputes under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability…
E2 Law Blog
A Conversation About ‘Fairness’ in Superfund Allocation
Superfund lawyers often confront vexing problems in allocating responsibility among parties jointly and severally liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). Litigation cost is prominent among…
Pillar and Post
IRS Provides Initial and Limited Guidance on Newly Reinstated ‘Superfund Tax’
By Cory Barnes, Nicholas C. Mowbray, Thomas Hogan
Last month, the IRS published Notice 2021-66, issued in response to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (Jobs Act) reinstatement of the previously expired “Superfund Tax”—an excise tax imposed on…