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Vapor Intrusion -- EPA Offers Guidance For Comment, But Now More Issues Than Ever

by Kenneth Gray | Pierce Atwood LLP on 5/8/2013

After being taken to task by states and its own Inspector General for lack of final guidance on Vapor Intrusion, EPA has just released draft guidance documents for hazardous substances and petroleum products for comment. The...more

Missouri To Pilot Reforms To Corrective Action Clean-Up Program

by Adam Troutwine | Polsinelli on 4/29/2013

Businesses involved in clean-up of environmentally contaminated sites often face a time-consuming and expensive process. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protection Agency will pilot reforms...more

EPA Issues Long-Awaited Vapor Intrusion Guidance for Public Comment

by John Gregory | Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 4/23/2013

More than ten years after issuing draft guidance regarding the increasingly significant subject of vapor intrusion (VI), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released for public comment drafts of two...more

Massachusetts Packaging Plant Pays Nearly $485K Penalty For Environmental Violations

by Philip Ahrens, John M. Formella, Kenneth Gray, Dixon P. Pike | Pierce Atwood LLP on 4/17/2013

A packaging company in Dudley, MA has agreed to pay $484,900 in penalties to settle EPA claims that the company violated numerous federal and state regulations. The violations occurred at the company’s liquid and aerosol...more

EPA Continues to Ignore the Dangers of Lead for Children

by Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 3/22/2013

In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set hazard standards for levels of lead, the measure of which is critical to children’s health. Despite calls from the agency’s science advisors, says USA Today, the federal...more

EPA Issues Revised Enforcement Guidance Regarding Tenant Liability Under CERCLA’s Bona Fide Prospective Purchaser Provision

by Douglas Eilender | Cole Schotz on 2/27/2013

Late last year, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued Revised Enforcement Guidance Regarding the Treatment of Tenants under the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and...more

Disposing Of Pharmaceutical Waste: Some Progress

by William J. Walsh | Pepper Hamilton LLP on 1/22/2013

In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seemed to be on the road to providing some much-needed clarity to hospitals and other medical facilities concerning the disposal of pharmaceuticals by proposing that...more

EPA Releases 2012 Enforcement Results

by Elizabeth Partlow | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/16/2013

Under the headline “EPA Enforcement in 2012 Protects Communities from Harmful Pollution,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 17, 2012, released its annual report of enforcement activities for the 2012...more

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