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EPA's explanation that PFAS are unsafe in minute concentrations is turning out to have serious ramifications for many, including...

Lara Beaven of Inside PFAS Policy reports that Maine farmers have joined litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency for not yet regulating the presence of PFAS in sewage sludge. The plaintiffs in that litigation...more

EPA has now listed two PFAS as Hazardous Substances under CERCLA. Hold onto your hats., Jeff Porter

Less than ten days after setting drinking water standards for six of the hundreds of chemicals known collectively as PFAS, EPA has now identified two of those PFAS that have been widely used for decades, PFOA and PFOS, as...more

My Mom would say that, when it comes to PFAS, the Judicial Panel on Multi District Litigation's eyes were bigger than its stomach!

A little over five years ago, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation gave Federal Judge Richard Gergel of South Carolina the burden of disposing of any cases “alleg[ing] that AFFF products used at airports, military...more

The DoD has played a card that only it has in the AFFF litigation but it won't get it out of PFAS purgatory

Lara Beaven, of Inside PFAS Policy, has an excellent report on the Defense Department's motion to dismiss claims for injunctive relief against the military in the AFFF multi-district litigation continuing before Federal...more

The PFAS Liability Abyss

Some of you may be old enough to remember the movie Wall Street and, if you are, you might remember that just before Bud is taken into federal custody, Lou says “man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him....more

EPA's execution of its PFAS road map proves the wheels of justice aren't the only ones that turn slowly.

While I was on vacation last week, EPA proposed to identify as “hazardous constituents” nine of the “forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS. EPA's proposal will now be subject to public comment before perhaps being...more

Another PFAS Clean Water Act Citizen Suit and there may be thousands more of these fish in the barrel.

Lara Beaven of Inside PFAS Policy is reporting on another PFAS citizen suit under the Federal Clean Water Act. This one, by Tennessee Riverkeeper, alleges that PFAS are being discharged from a former Lebanon, Tennessee...more

The monumental PFAS settlements with water suppliers aren't out of the woods but give the Judge, Class Counsel, and Defense...

Many of the nation's public water suppliers and certain manufacturers of PFAS used in fire fighting foam are one step closer to massive class action settlements after a “fairness hearing” before Federal District Court Judge...more

This is NOT a drill! EPA is going to require billions of dollars of PFAS remediation in many places, including at already "closed"...

Yesterday, I spoke with Sarah Mattalian, an Inside EPA reporter writing a story about the suggestion by an EPA official that EPA might require additional PFAS investigations and clean up at properties that had already been...more

Nature may abhor a vacuum but North Carolina has learned the same isn't true of Europeans with PFAS they don't want.

Since EPA published its PFAS road map just a little more than two years ago, I've often commended EPA for its ambitious plan to regulate the forever and everywhere chemicals known collectively as PFAS. After all, if, as EPA...more

This is NOT a drill! EPA is going to require billions of dollars of PFAS remediation in many places, including at already...

Yesterday, I spoke with Sarah Mattalian, an Inside EPA reporter writing a story about the suggestion by an EPA official that EPA might require additional PFAS investigations and clean up at properties that had already been...more

Sunshine may be among the best disinfectants but these PFAS defendants are fighting to keep their settlement with Rome, Georgia...

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously exclaimed sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. Of course the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Rome News-Tribune endorse that proposition. And, the newspapers...more

Really, that's the story you want to go with? EPA explains why it says "if" it designates PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances...

One of the two things in EPA's National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative for PFAS that caught my eye also caught the eye of Suzanne Yohannan at Inside PFAS Policy. That thing was that EPA Assistant Administrator...more

PFAS Rulings in South Carolina & Michigan shine a light on the fact we have no idea what removing PFAS from our environment is...

This week Judge Gergel tentatively approved the $1.2 billion settlement between DuPont (and related companies) and water suppliers now dealing with the fact that EPA and many States have concluded that the most minute...more

Two things about EPA's National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative for PFAS that caught my eye.

After less than a month on the job EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) Chief David Uhlmann this week released a memorandum outlining EPA's National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (NECIs) for the...more

3M tried to resolve its PFAS liability to water suppliers for $12.5 BILLION and almost 1/2 the States (including MA) are...

In May I wrote about a manufacturer of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) excused from the PFAS Multi-District Litigation in South Carolina because its PFAS-related liabilities might exceed its assets which is something for a...more

There are many headlines today that "nearly half" of our drinking water contains PFAS, but no mentions of Paracelsus, and here's...

Everyone from Bloomberg to CNN to the Boston Globe is reporting today on US Geologic Survey research concluding that "nearly half" (45 percent to be precise) of US drinking water sources contain detectable concentrations of...more

If a thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of warning then what happened this week in NJ is a whopper of a PFAS thorn

James Russell Lowell wrote that one thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. This week's nearly 400 million dollar settlement between a New Jersey plastic manufacturer and the State of New Jersey over the...more

PFAS Manufacturers Continue to Pay Massive Claims But Do They Have Enough Money to Pay Them All?

Bloomberg is reporting that 3M and the two companies responsible for the liability of what used to be DuPont have agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the City of Rome, Georgia for the cost of engineering...more

Surprising no one, those pursued to pay for PFAS contamination are buckling under the weight of those claims. What's next?

Hundreds and hundreds of claims for personal injury and property damage associated with PFAS contamination have been accumulating in the courtroom of a Federal Judge in South Carolina. A little over four years ago the Federal...more

Shooting fish in a barrel: Why I'm surprised the courts haven't already been flooded with PFAS Clean Water Act Citizen Suits.

Bloomberg Environment reports that a Georgia NGO has sued a textile manufacturer and the town in which the manufacturer is located over unpermitted discharges of the "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS into the...more

EPA and many States have decided that PFAS can't be in the environment. Now Maine is learning how hard it is to stop them from...

Inside EPA reports that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection is having a hard time implementing a 2021 Maine law that would, between now and the end of 2029, ban the sale of any new products with “intentionally...more

EPA has concluded that PFAS are an "urgent public health and environmental issue" but everyone isn't on the same page about what...

EPA continues to make measurable progress toward the milestones it established in its 2021 PFAS road map. It has arranged for an assessment of the risks posed by these "forever chemicals" and concluded, based on those...more

As EPA continues to move toward identifying PFAS as Hazardous Substances, we continue to put them in the environment. Does that...

Massachusetts State Representative Kate Hogan seems to make a lot of sense when she says, about the continued widespread use of the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS, that "if we don't prevent it, all we're doing is...more

Before cheering the DC Circuit's dismissal of the American Chemistry Council's PFAS lawsuit, let's recognize its effect on all...

Three Judges of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals have dismissed the American Chemistry Council's complaint challenging EPA's interim health advisory levels for PFAS in drinking water. The ACC's case was dismissed, not for...more

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