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Colorado’s EPR Law Enters First Compliance Phase: Reporting Due July 31

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Colorado’s comprehensive extended producer responsibility (EPR) program reporting deadline is fast approaching. Producers (including brand owners, manufacturers, importers and retailers) of packaging and paper products are...more

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Minnesota’s EPR Law Now in Effect: Businesses Must Confirm Compliance Following July 1 Deadline

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Businesses manufacturing, distributing or selling packaging, paper products and food packaging in Minnesota must comply with Minnesota’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws. Affected businesses were required to...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Do You Use Packaging? If So, You Need To Know About Minnesota's New Packaging Law And The Upcoming Deadline Of July 1, 2025

Minnesota is now the fifth state—joining Maine, Oregon, Colorado, and California—to pass what are called “extended producer responsibility” laws, in line with a growing trend across the country. In 2024, Minnesota enacted the...more

Clark Hill PLC

U.S. Extended Producer Responsibility compliance for packaging and paper products begins: Is your business ready?

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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance deadlines have arrived in the U.S., with additional deadlines quickly approaching, particularly for Oregon and Colorado, for “producers” of certain packaging, paper products,...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Qui paie la note? Responsabilité élargie des producteurs et possibles répercussions sur votre entreprise

Au cours des deux dernières décennies, les législateurs fédéraux et provinciaux ont mis en place des régimes de responsabilité élargie des producteurs couvrant un éventail toujours plus étendu de produits, comme les...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Maryland and Washington Join Growing List of States with Packaging EPR Laws

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Maryland and Washington have joined the growing list of states enacting extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws for packaging and paper products. These laws shift the cost of recycling these materials from the consumer...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Maryland Becomes Sixth State to Enact Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility, Washington Expected to Follow

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Introduction - On May 13, 2025, Maryland became the sixth state to enact Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws for paper and packaging material. Washington is poised to become the seventh. In Washington, the bill has...more

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Non-Compliance with Oregon’s Extended Producer Responsibility Law May Result in Penalties of $25,000 per Day

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Under Oregon’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law, the deadline for producers of consumer packaging, paper and food serviceware to register and report their production of such materials to the Circular Action Alliance...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] EPR Think Tank - May 28th, New York, NY

With Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging laws rapidly expanding across the U.S. and globally – producers, retailers, and sustainability leaders are facing unprecedented pressure to prepare for a new wave of...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Oregon’s Plastic Pollution & Recycling ‎Modernization Act (RMA): A Guide for ‎Businesses

On July 1, 2025, Oregon’s Plastic Pollution & Recycling Modernization Act (RMA) will significantly change the state’s recycling system. The RMA places responsibility on “producers” to fund and manage the recycling process for...more

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California Passes Producer Responsibility Law for Textiles: Three Takeaways

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Working toward a more circular economy will continue to be at the forefront in 2025. More and more, states are requiring producers to manage the end-of-life of an increasing number of consumer items, from packaging materials,...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

SB 707: The Nation's First EPR Law Specific to Textiles

CalRecycle, the agency overseeing California’s recycling and waste management programs, reports that Californians dispose of 1.2 million tons of textiles annually, accounting for 3% of landfilling. California Senate Bill (SB)...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Maine and Massachusetts Push Forward Extended Producer Responsibility Efforts

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In the past month, both Maine and Massachusetts have taken steps to implement extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws and rules, with the intent of shifting the financial responsibility of managing packaging material from...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Recent West Virginia Supreme Court Decisions Impact Oil and Gas Producers

In two monumental November 14, 2024 spilt decisions, the West Virginia Supreme Court gives oil and gas lessees a huge win and makes doing business in West Virginia more expensive for oil and gas producers....more

EPR Group Consulting Inc.

Producer Compliance Updates for Oregon's EPR Program

Businesses that expect to be deemed “producers” of single-use packaging, paper, or food service ware (“covered materials”) under the various extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) programs unfolding in several U.S. states...more

Holland & Hart LLP

October 1 Deadline for Producers to Register under Colorado's New Recycling System is Fast Approaching

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The Colorado Legislature has adopted an Extended Producer Responsibility (“EPR”) Program which requires producers of certain packaging and paper materials to cover the cost of recycling those materials in the state. If you...more

EPR Group Consulting Inc.

Post-Consumer Recycled Content in EPR Packaging Programs

Post-consumer recycled content (“PCR”) plays an important role in extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) programs for packaging. Among other purposes, the EPR programs are intended to increase the quantity and quality of...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Fast-Approaching Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Deadlines: Colorado’s EPR Requirements and Registration

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy enacted by several states,1 which extends a manufacturer’s responsibility for its product’s packaging materials to the end of the product’s life cycle....more

EPR Group Consulting Inc.

Producer Fees in State EPR Packaging Programs

The extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) programs for packaging that are currently unfolding in several states impose two primary obligations on producers of covered materials—reporting data and paying fees to a producer...more

Opportune LLP

Producer vs. Trading Mindset Considerations for an ETRM

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Through many of our projects, clients often mention alignment as a gas "Producer" or "Optimizer." The distinction lies in where the operational focus is attuned – flowing assured gas to customers or optimizing earnings...more

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The Generative AI Revolution: Key Legal Considerations for the Cannabis Industry

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For better or worse, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming the way we live and work. Within two months of its initial release to the public, ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users, making...more

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Government Contracts Inflation Update

In October 2022, I circulated “An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor[.]”    Much has occurred since.   Inflation remains an acute problem.   In turn, contractors and subcontractors continue...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The Superfund Tax is back: Recent IRS guidance and background

As this nation prepared to celebrate the Independence Day long weekend, many were preparing for the July 1, 2022, reinstatement of the Superfund chemicals tax (the Superfund Tax). The Superfund Tax is an excise tax imposed on...more

Payne & Fears

California Court of Appeal Clarifies Requirements for Proposition 65 Liability

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The California Court of Appeal recently provided much needed clarification regarding the application of Proposition 65, which prohibits businesses from knowingly and intentionally exposing individuals to certain chemicals...more

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Revised Regulation Streamlines “Importer Reimbursement Certification” To Conform With Cbp Practice

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In recent months, new and modified Department of Commerce regulations impacting antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) proceedings have taken effect. These changes, which are intended “to strengthen and improve the...more

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