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Litigation Minute: Microplastics—Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? (ESG Litigation Series: Part Two)

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What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - Microplastics, as a seemingly ubiquitous contaminant, have increasingly become the subject of online exposés and class action challenges. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces Strengthening the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment Standard for Commercial and Household Cleaning...

On August 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it made updates to strengthen the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) Standard, which identifies the requirements that products and...more

Fishman Haygood LLP

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Rejects FIFRA Preemption in Roundup Case

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As of May 2022, Monsanto, the company that developed the allegedly cancer-causing weed killer Roundup, has settled more than 100,000 lawsuits, and paid nearly $11 billion in settlements. Despite this massive number, 30,000...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Stay ADvised: Brand Protection & Advertising Law News - December 2023

In This Case, What You Can't See in Fact Is Not There: FTC Takes Down the Makers of the Invisible COVID Mask - After what has seemed like a lull in both diagnosed COVID cases and the enforcement variety—both the virus and...more

Bennett Jones LLP

The Federal Court Rules that the Order Labelling Plastics as a Toxic Substance is Unreasonable and Unconstitutional

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The Federal Court of Canada (Court) released its decision on November 16, 2023, in Responsible Plastics Use Coalition v Canada, which held that the Federal Government's labelling of all Plastic Manufactured Items (PMI) as...more

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The Intersection of Prop 65 and Free Speech: A Recent Win for Businesses

Under California’s Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”), businesses are required to give “clear and reasonable warnings” to consumers regarding potential chemical exposure if their product contains a chemical “known to the state to...more

Alston & Bird

PFAS Primer Quarterly Update: 2023 Q3 – Setting the PFAS Standard

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In the latest edition of the PFAS Primer Quarterly Update, our roundup of regulatory, litigation, and scientific actions involving PFAS. This quarter, the EPA finalizes its landmark PFAS reporting and recordkeeping rule, the...more

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EPA Announces First Product Categories for Expansion of Ecolabel Recommendations for Federal Purchasing

On August 1, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first five product and service categories chosen for the expansion of its Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal...more

Jenner & Block

Governor Newsom Vetoes PFAS Reporting Bill But Signs Into Law Legislation Banning PFAS in Cosmetics and Textiles

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On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill No. 2247. The bill would have required manufacturers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) or products or product components containing intentionally...more

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New Study Reports Finding PFAS In Children’s Clothes With “Green” Labeling

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A new study entitled How Well Do Product Labels Indicate the Presence of PFAS in Consumer Items Used by Children and Adolescents? was published at the beginning of the month. The authors tested products “that children and...more

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Litigation Minute: The Coming Wave of PFAS Litigation

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - Makers and sellers of retail food and beverage products may face a wave of class action litigation over so-called "forever chemicals" (or PFAS) in the coming years....more

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U.S. House Passes PFAS Action Act of 2021

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On Wednesday July 21, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2021. The bill, H.R. 2467, passed 241-183 demonstrating its bipartisan support, with twenty-three Republicans joining their...more

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EPA Announces the Issuance of a Revised Advisory on Disinfectants Making False and Misleading Claims against COVID-19

In January 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) announced that it issued a revised compliance advisory (Advisory) on products claiming to kill...more

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At Long Last, EPA Releases Protocol for Registering Long-Lasting Disinfectants

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Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group explains how companies can benefit from the Environmental Protection Agency’s new interim guidance expediting the product registration process for long-lasting antimicrobial...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces the Approval of 13 Additional Products Effective against SARS-CoV-2

On July 30, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it approved amended labels for 13 products based on laboratory testing that shows the products are effective against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Spanish Translation Guide for Pesticide Labeling

On October 17, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Spanish Translation Guide for Pesticide Labeling resource for use by all, including pesticide registrants that choose to display parts of their...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Prop 65 Battle Royale over Glyphosate: EPA vs. OEHHA

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which administers Proposition 65, wasted no time in punching back at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which declared, in an August 8...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - August #2

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Focus - EPA will not approve labels that say Roundup chemical causes cancer - U.S. News & World Report – August 8 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this Thursday that it will not approve...more

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Califormaldehyde: EPA Formally Adopts California-Like Requirements for Composite Wood Products

On March 22, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin to implement its own formaldehyde emission standards as required under the Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act, Title VI to the...more

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Proposed Dicamba Regulations: Arkansas State Plant Board Announces Public Comment Period/Public Hearing

Yesterday the Arkansas Agriculture Department’s Arkansas State Plant Board gave public notice of a 30-day public comment period and a February 20, 2019, public hearing for proposed regulations authorizing the over-the-top use...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update - February 2017

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Environmental and Policy Focus - Trump Administration proposes rule requiring deletion of two regulations for every new regulation adopted - Washington Post - Jan 30 - President Trump signed an order...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Safer Choice Partner And Stakeholder Summit Announced

On October 7, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first ever Safer Choice Partner and Stakeholder Summit. The summit will be the first of several meetings intended to explore topics of...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

NGOs File Suit Regarding Inert Ingredients’ Disclosure

On June 24, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the Center for Environmental Health, Beyond Pesticides, and Physicians for Social Responsibility (Plaintiffs) sued the U.S....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Gets Closer To Issuing Final Rule On Revisions To Minimum Risk Exemption For Pesticides

On June 24, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notification that the EPA Administrator has forwarded to the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Secretary of the...more

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