Last month, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published a direct final rule that conforms Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) chemical inventory reporting regulations to the...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 7, 2025, the addition of a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) to the list of chemicals covered by the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). EPA added sodium...more
On September 17, 2025, EPA announced its decision to preserve the rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”) as “Hazardous Substances” pursuant to the Comprehensive...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation (“Cargill”) entered into an August 18th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing an alleged violation of the federal Emergency...more
EPA Adds Nine New PFAS to List of Chemicals Subject to Toxic Chemical Release Reporting Under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and The Pollution Prevention Act On January 6, 2025, the EPA published a...more
On February 5, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delayed until March 21, 2025, the effective date of a January 2025 rule adding nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of chemicals...more
The global bulk chemical shipping industry relies on chemical transportation depots to be responsive to market demands by temporarily holding trailers and containers of chemical products en route to their final destinations...more
Since late 2019, EPA has successfully added certain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the toxic release inventory (TRI) list of chemicals subject to reporting under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on January 6, 2025, that it is updating the list of chemicals subject to toxic chemical release reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act...more
While ringing in the New Year, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the addition of nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances to the list of chemicals covered by the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) pursuant to...more
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the federal Superfund law (PFAS Designation Rule) in September...more
Long-term changes to Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”) reporting requirements under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (“EPCRA”) will require thousands of facilities to submit reports on per- and...more
2025 will be a landmark year in the regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), which have been nicknamed “forever chemicals” because of their persistence in the environment. For decades, PFAS have been used...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add 16 new, individually listed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and 15 PFAS categories to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list as "chemicals of...more
On October 8, 2024, the EPA proposed adding 16 individual and 15 categories of PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of chemicals subject to reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects companies to self-police their environmental compliance efforts. While the EPA regularly conducts inspections focused on assessing environmental compliance, it also...more
In a final rule published on May 17, 2024, and to become effective June 17, 2024, EPA has added seven per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of chemicals subject to toxic chemical release reporting under the...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”) has finalized the addition of seven per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) to the Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”) program, publishing the final rule in...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has released its Annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis (“Analysis”). The TRI is a publicly available database prepared and published by EPA annually....more
On February 8, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published two proposed rules that would expand its regulatory authority over PFAS: one to list nine PFAS as hazardous constituents subject to the Resource...more
The new year marks the final one of U.S. EPA’s Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (“PFAS”) Strategic Roadmap, and so it is only fitting that the Agency begins 2024 by adding seven additional PFAS to the Toxic Release...more
As we have previously reported, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a class of substances coming under increasing regulatory scrutiny. As manufacturers ring in the new year they should be aware of two new PFAS...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Bottling Group, LLC, operating as Pepsi Beverages Company, and CB Manufacturing Company, Inc., (collectively, “Pepsi”) entered into a September 25th Consent...more
In October 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized two separate but analogous rulemakings – one under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and one under the Emergency Planning and Community...more
On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new final rule that categorized as chemicals of special concern all per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that industry must currently...more