Safety-ism & Jury Trials – IMS Insights Podcast Episode 61
PFAS: Increasing Regulations and Managing Legal Liability
Lead Exposure Claims: Proactive Strategies for Effective Resolution
EPA Plan Changes PFAS Outlook For Companies, Regulators
What are PFAS and Why Should We Care?
Trekking Through Compliance-Episode 58 – The Paradise Syndrome
Daily Compliance News: January 22, 2020, the Heads Will Roll edition
12 O'Clock High-Leadership Lessons from James Garfield
Daily Compliance News: July 26, 2019, the who are you friends edition
The Use of Monitors by State Attorneys General-Part I: The Role of State Attorneys General as Enforcers
Butler Celebrates International Women's Day
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
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Mona Hanna Discusses Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Class Action Claims
"Damages" in an Injury Lawsuit: An Introduction for Lay People
Your Deposition: What to Expect
Announcing finalization of risk management rules for discontinued use of TCE and PCE under TSCA Amendments - On December 9, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) banned the use of trichloroethylene (“TCE”)...more
Continuing its assault on commonly used chemicals that pose risks to human health, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”) issued (but has not yet published in the Federal Register) bans on...more
Plaintiff Bonito brought this asbestos action based on her diagnosis of, and eventual passing from, mesothelioma. Plaintiff alleged exposure from laundering her husband’s clothes from approximately 1966 to the1990s. Mr....more
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Dec. 4 finalized amendments on the regulation of new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Specifically, the EPA targeted stricter regulations of certain...more
Our blog has written on EPA’s placement of Trichloroethylene (TCE on the chopping block and the phase down of Perchloroethylene (PCE). And early this week, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized those proposed rules...more
On December 9, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) adopted new rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) banning certain uses of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE). ...more
On December 5, 2024, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight held a hearing on “Examining the Public Health Impacts of...more
Last week, EPA released two final rules under TSCA. The first rule bans all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE). The ban is subject to several temporary exemptions for certain uses under § 6(g) of TSCA. The second rule bans...more
As the Biden Administration comes to a close, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has banned two commonly used chemicals under the 2016 Lautenberg Amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)....more
Litigation risks associated with per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to grow, as demonstrated by settlements over the last year in the set of claims being adjudicated in a multidistrict litigation (MDL-2873) in...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Dec. 3 issued Part 2 of a final risk determination providing an overview of the hazards of asbestos “to workers in certain conditions.” The agency will soon begin the risk...more
On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of its final supplement to the risk evaluation and revised unreasonable risk determination for 1,4-dioxane under the Toxic Substances...more
On November 29, 2024, EPA issued a supplemental proposed rule to update significant new use rules (SNURs) previously proposed for 17 PFAS under Section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). A SNUR creates a...more
Jurisdiction: Superior Court of Connecticut, Judicial District of Bridgeport at Bridgeport Decedent Nicolas Barone was diagnosed with mesothelioma in May 2022. His surviving spouse, Kathryn Barone (plaintiff)brought suit in...more
Texas AG Ken Paxton has announced a settlement with TPC Group, Inc. and TPC Group LLC (collectively, “TPC”), to resolve lawsuits alleging that TPC violated Texas law through conduct that resulted in an explosion that leveled...more
As the Biden-Harris administration draws to a close, EPA has issued its third annual report touting the progress made under the PFAS Strategic Roadmap. In the report, EPA notes the major legal, technical, and policy...more
As we reported last month, a California federal court recently dismissed a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) class action complaint on the basis that the plaintiffs’ total organic fluorine (TOF) analysis testing...more
On September 5, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the PFAS reporting deadline under the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 8(a)(7) regulation, found at 40 C.F.R. Part 705 (PFAS...more
Supreme Court of New York, New York County - Plaintiff Raymond Lee, as administrator for the estate of the decedent, Jim Lee filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York, New York County alleging decedent was exposed to...more
On November 14, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the release of EPA’s third annual progress report on EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap, and the report indicates a growing focus on PFAS-related enforcement and...more
Last month, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced a rulemaking process to list perflouorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under the Oregon Cleanup...more
Last week, the State of Maine became the latest state or local government to sue the major fossil fuel companies for damages related to climate change. There are around three dozen lawsuits bringing common law and state tort...more
Many prescription drugs have side effects. In fact, drug companies frequently include a list of side effects on their drugs’ labels and packaging (not because they want to, but because they are required to do so under federal...more
Supreme Court of New York, New York County -In this asbestos action, Plaintiff Jane E. Wixted, as executrix for the estate of the decedent, Thomas N. Wixted (“Decedent”) filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York, New...more