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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
2BInformed: The Future of Fluoride in Drinking Water, the New TSCA Fees Rule, and the Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 5
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?
The regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) in drinking water remains one of the primary focuses for legislatures and agencies at both the state and federal levels....more
The Arkansas Governor’s Office issued a news release titled: Arkansas Water Plan Update Moves Forward After First Phase Completion (“AWP”). The news release states that the Arkansas Department of Agriculture and...more
The city of Fresno announced this week that Shell USA, Dow Chemical, and other oil and chemical companies have agreed to pay the city $230 million to settle the city’s 2007 lawsuit against them for allegedly contaminating...more
In the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS, the EPA announces drinking-water regulations, states continue to fight firefighting...more
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are at the top of every environmental regulator’s list in 2024 and already this year the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken key steps toward regulating...more
On May 13, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and New York State officials broke ground on a clean water infrastructure project at Plant 6 of the Hicksville Water District, located in Nassau County. This...more
On April 19, 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (“US EPA”) announced its final rule designating two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), namely perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic...more
A state attorney general (AG) and a major American corporation recently battled over the scope and applicability of the government contractor defense....more
With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent announcement of final maximum contaminant levels for various per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), public water systems (PWSs) are determining what actions...more
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent rulemakings for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have far-reaching implications for a broad range of industries, regulated entities, and regulatory bodies. First,...more
Previous editions of Re:Torts (It’s (Still) Important Enough to Get It Right; Opioid Public Nuisance Question) have covered decisions that addressed whether various states permit public nuisance claims in connection with the...more
Announcing PFAS Drinking Water Standard, Moves to Designate PFAS as Hazardous Substance Under CERCLA -...more
On April 19, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a pre-publication final rule and an associated enforcement policy concerning two common types of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS):...more
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has designated PFOA and PFOS as "Hazardous Substances" under CERCLA, marking the agency's first use of Section 102(a) authority and signaling potential widespread industry impact...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized two of the most anticipated environmental regulations related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—known as PFAS—in the past two weeks: listing of PFOA and PFOS as...more
PART II - As detailed in Part 1 of this eAlert, on April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS),...more
On April 19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a pre-publication version of the long-awaited final rule designating two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as “hazardous substances” under the...more
EPA’s listing of two “forever Chemicals” as CERCLA hazardous substances will re-open sites that companies had thought were closed. And every user of a product that contained them may become responsible for a share of the...more
On April 19, 2024, just nine days after finalizing the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standard for six individual per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Agency designated PFOA and PFOS, two...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted final rules that affect businesses that manufactured or used PFAS substances and establish maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for drinking water....more
On April 10, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (the “Regulation”) which established legally enforceable levels called Maximum Contaminant Levels...more
Over the next five years, U.S. EPA hopes its new national drinking water standard will reduce per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) compounds in drinking water to almost zero as a way to prevent potential health risks...more
On April 10, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued its long-anticipated National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (“NPDWR”) establishing Maximum Contaminant Levels (“MCLs”) for certain PFAS...more
On April 8, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan signed a final rule regulating six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The final rule,...more
The final rule on the National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR) for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 10, 2024. This Update summarizes...more