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PFAS in Focus: Forever-Engineering With Trent Stober, HDR - Reflections on Water Podcast
PFAS Regulatory Update: EPA Issues Updated Drinking Water Health Advisories
Drinking Water on Tap: Money, Morality, and More with Tracy Mehan from the American Water Works Association - Reflections on Water Podcast
Forever Chemicals: What They are and What is being Done to Minimize Their Impact
On-Demand Webinar | Taking the Plunge: Lessons Learned from Water System Consolidations
On-Demand Webinar | Flood or Drought? A Discussion of the Election’s Potential Legislative Impacts on the Water Sector
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
As discussed in BCLP’s May 15, 2025 Insight, EPA announced that it would issue a proposed rule in fall 2025 to implement several changes to the MCLs previously issued by EPA for drinking water in April 2024. To date, the...more
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) is considering a new expedited enforcement path for minor regulatory violations to more efficiently deploy agency resources and help remedy its backlog of enforcement...more
PFAS-related litigation continues to climb and to diversify as to claims and parties. See the attached graphics, updated through the fourth quarter of 2025. We will continue to update these graphics on a quarterly basis...more
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to roll back regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a landmark environmental law that the White House says needlessly delays federal approvals for...more
In the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA looks to narrow the TSCA PFAS reporting rule, state legislatures...more
At the end of October, the attorneys general of five states—Florida, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska and Montana—issued letters to three pro-recycling organizations raising concerns that the groups’ recycling initiatives may violate...more
While expansive federal and state regulation continues with respect to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), what environmental constituent will be next to garner increased attention? The answer may be microplastics....more
US critical infrastructure has historically been a prime target for threat actors due to the significant and far-reaching consequences of cyberattacks. Today, ongoing geopolitical tensions and escalating global conflict have...more
As previously reported, in the context of litigation by utilities challenging Maximum Contaminant Levels (“MCLs”) for PFAS in drinking water, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) filed a Motion to Vacate...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday ruled that the nonprofit recipients of $14 billion in climate grants frozen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can have their case reheard....more
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Nov. 25 that $3 billion in funding would be made available for states through the State Revolving Fund (SRF) geared towards programs to reduce lead exposure in drinking water. The...more
This week, New York highlighted a decade of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS") regulatory initiatives spanning drinking water, permitting, and product restrictions, and Minnesota finalized a comprehensive PFAS...more
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) issued on December 11, 2025, a suite of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) response actions and resources intended to protect communities. The...more
Federal wildlife officials on Monday denied listing the Western Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act....more
On December 11, 2025, the Federal Official Gazette published the “Decree enacting the General Water Law and reforming, repealing, and amending various provisions of the National Water Law” (“Decree”)....more
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Commission approved $153 million for drinking water and wastewater related projects. 52 entities will receive the funds....more
The American Water Works Association (“AWWA”) issued a document titled: Corrosion Control Implementation Framework (“Framework”). ...more
Monthly newsletter Material Concerns: Legal Updates on Substances of Emerging Concern keeps clients informed on the latest legal, regulatory and scientific developments related to substances of emerging concern....more
The American Water Works Association (“AWWA”) published a document titled: Maintaining a Numeric Minimum Disinfectant Residual in the Distribution System - A Framework for Strategy Selection and Evaluation (“Framework”)....more
Numerous states have either enacted or proposed regulations regarding per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) present in Class B Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (“AFFF”) used for firefighting, or PFAS present in firefighters’...more
Executive Summary - On November 12, 2025, President Trump signed a bipartisan funding package that officially reopened the federal government after a six-week shutdown and temporarily reinstated two major cybersecurity...more
Contaminants Compass is a monthly newsletter that provides updates, legal observations and actionable tips to navigate the evolving legal challenges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and similar chemicals and...more
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took the penultimate step to granting Texas the authority to directly issue Class VI permits under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection Control (UIC)...more
On November 12, 2025, the Railroad Commission of Texas (“RRC”) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that EPA had granted Texas primary enforcement authority (“primacy”) under the Safe Drinking Water Act...more
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced in an October 31st news release charges against Seneca Resources, LLC (“Seneca”). The news release states that the charges involve multiple violations of Pennsylvania’s...more