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Foley & Lardner LLP

The Importance of Risk Audits for PFAS in the Automotive Industry

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The automotive industry continues to grow a record of sustainability, improving fuel efficiency and proliferating electric vehicles, and adopting eco-friendly manufacturing processes. Along with these important sustainability...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Beware of the Looming Supply Chain Challenges for PFAS Reporting Under TSCA

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Welcome back to The WELL. Let’s begin with an adaptation of the “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” when they met this summer on a field. The Grasshopper was relaxing because the final Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances...more

Troutman Pepper

Tennessee AG Sues More Than 20 PFAS Manufacturers

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Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti is suing more than 20 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) manufacturers, including 3M and DuPont, seeking injunctive and monetary relief under the state’s public nuisance and uniform...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

The Future of Green Marketing: Anticipated Changes to the FTC’s Green Guides

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The FTC will likely update Green Guides provisions, impacting corporate decision-making in marketing and throughout the value chain. Latham & Watkins is pleased to present a series of Clients Alerts on environmental,...more

IMS Legal Strategies

Chemical Engineering Industry Bias, Supply Chain Disruption, IP Disputes – Episode 49

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Chemical engineering expert and IMS Elite Expert Terry Livingston examines common chemical industry misconceptions, petrochemical exportation, international supply chain disruption, and intellectual property litigation....more

Goldberg Segalla

PFAS ALERT: What Happens in California Won’t Likely Stay in California

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In what has been earmarked as the largest government enforcement PFAS action to date, California’s attorney general last month filed an historic lawsuit against more than a dozen per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS)...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Division Y-Cyber Incident Report for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 Becomes Law, with Regulations Expected by 2025

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Division Y – Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 was signed into law by President Biden on March 15. Highlights of the Act include: ...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces It Is Extending Flexibilities to Minimize Supply-Chain Disruptions Facing the Pesticide Industry

On January 20, 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is extending supply-chain flexibilities for registrants of certain conventional and biopesticide products to alleviate a supply-chain issue...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Proposes Further Extension of Compliance Dates for PIP (3:1)-Containing Articles

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 21, 2021, that it is proposing to extend further the compliance dates related to articles containing phenol, isopropylated phosphate (3:1) (PIP (3:1)) to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

UK REACH Update: Imminent Deadlines and Challenges

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While it is nearly a year into the post-Brexit chemicals regulatory regime, the infrastructure to accommodate UK REACH registrations is not yet running smoothly and as a result importers and distributors of chemical...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

With 12 Months’ Notice, EPA Bringing Temporary Disinfectant Supply Chain Flexibilities to a Close

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Key Takeaways - • What happened: EPA announced that it will retract the temporary amendments to Pesticide Registration (“PR”) Notice 98-10, originally issued by EPA in March 2020. These amendments were intended to provide...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces Sunset of Temporary Disinfectant Supply Chain Flexibilities

On September 15, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is terminating the Temporary Amendment to Pesticide Registration (PR) Notice 98-10, effective September 15, 2022. EPA states that it is...more

BCLP

New Toxic Chemical Regulations: Is Your Supply Chain Impacted?

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There are new chemical regulations on the block, and your company’s supply chain might be implicated. These rules prohibit both the manufacturing of certain bioaccumulating chemicals as well as the distribution of products...more

A&O Shearman

A new year, new obligations for economic operations: Here comes the market surveillance regulation

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In order to guarantee the free movement of products in the EU market, it is necessary to ensure that products fulfil requirements providing a high level of protection of public interests, such as health and safety in general,...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Strategies for Uncertain Times: Management and Legal Perspectives for the Specialty Chemical Industry

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As with virtually every sector, the COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacted the chemical industry—from corporate transactions to supply chains to privacy concerns related to employees working remotely. A team of Womble Bond...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Post-Brexit Chemical Regulation in the United Kingdom and the European Union

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As the post-Brexit transition period comes to an end on 31 December 2020, options to ensure compliance and uninterrupted trade for businesses placing chemical substances and mixtures on the UK and EU markets are becoming...more

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A look at the EU Market Surveillance Regulation

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 21 (October 29, 2020) - The European Union has some of the world’s most robust environmental, health and safety standards for products sold and imported into the market. Despite...more

Hogan Lovells

Predictive maintenance: opportunity or dead end for the chemical industry 4.0?

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Data, machine-to-machine communication, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are buzzwords describing the fourth industrial revolution. In the past few years, there have been claims that the chemical industry is falling behind on...more

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The automotive recession won’t spare chemical companies

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The automotive recession won’t spare chemical companies - Even before COVID-19 hit the U.S. and EU, traditional auto giants were, as the Wall Street Journal wrote back in February, “girding for tougher times” – battling...more

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Global trade uncertainties put chemical companies at risk

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Beset by ongoing tariff wars, Brexit fallout, heightened sanctions, and other geopolitical tumult, global value chains now face a deeply uncertain trade environment....more

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Chemical Watch releases report on regulatory developments in the electronics industry

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 11 (May 28, 2020) - A free report details some of the developments within the electronics industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the report...more

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Report on Supply Chain Compliance Volume 2, Number 21: Latest Brexit news - November 2019

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 2, no. 21 (November 7, 2019) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold a general election in December that will, hopefully, decide the course of Brexit once and for all. The...more

BCLP

PFAS Consumer Products Regulations

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Manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of consumer products across a broad spectrum of industries are being impacted by regulations regarding the presence of per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (“PFAS”) in their products....more

Buchalter

Environmental Health News: New Proposition 65 Rules Are Now In Effect

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Proposition 65 (often referred to as “Prop 65”) is an environmental health law enacted in California as the “Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act” in 1986. Despite this official title, the scope of Prop 65 regulates...more

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Maybe 2018 Will Be the Year We Finally See How the California Safer Consumer Product Regulations Will Work in Practice? Spray...

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DTSC has released the rulemaking for its second selected “priority product” which is spray polyurethane foam systems with unreacted methylene diphenyl diicyanates. This is a product that is actually manufactured and sold in...more

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