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PFAS Regulatory Update: EPA Issues Updated Drinking Water Health Advisories
Where Do We Stand on COVID-19? A Conversation with Andy Slavitt
Rob DeConti on the Latest Guidance and Insights from the OIG at HHS
#WorkforceWednesday: Evolving Pandemic Regulations, Overtime Rule Under Review, ACA Upheld - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: States Adjust COVID-19 Regulations and OSHA ETS Released - Employment Law This Week®
Forever Chemicals: What They are and What is being Done to Minimize Their Impact
The CDC's Guidance for Fully Vaccinated People
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COVID-19 Vaccines: The Ethical and Legal Challenges to Immunization
The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine and the Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry — What You Need to Know
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Policing Reform
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The White House revealed its latest strategy to address PFAS, and the EPA extended the reporting deadline for its PFAS reporting rule....more
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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
Much has been written, including in our Burns & Levinson Legal Terrain Blog, about the impact of PFAS and similar “forever chemicals” on suits by state attorneys general and private actions to obtain funds or obtain insurance...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 10, 2024, the Biden administration set the first-ever national drinking water standards for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. PFAS are a large class of thousands of synthetic...more
On April 10, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR) for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This regulation represents a key...more
On Monday, March 18, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a ban on the use of chrysotile asbestos in the United States, including in products imported into the U.S....more
As governments around the world begin to introduce new frameworks and standards addressing the responsible design, development, deployment and operation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, chief compliance officers...more
The AI executive order moves the U.S. closer to a broader unified approach on federal AI regulation, expanding on the AI Bill of Rights and NIST AI Risk Management Framework and focusing on the responsible development and...more
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” designed to spur new AI safety and security standards, encourage the development of privacy-preserving...more
Mayor Kenney Signs Executive Order Protecting Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender People- On Tuesday, Mayor Jim Kenney issued an executive order prohibiting the city from using any resources to investigate or punish...more
Louisiana has been at the center of the Biden Administration’s prioritization of environmental justice (EJ) issues. In United States v. Denka Performance Elastomer, the Eastern District of Louisiana granted a motion by the...more
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On April 10, 2023, President Biden signed a resolution ending the COVID-19 National Emergency. As we had previously reported, the National Emergency originally was scheduled to end on May 11, 2023 – at the same time as the...more
In early 2023, the Biden administration announced and set into motion its plans to wind down a number of pandemic-related programs and allow the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration, which has been in effect...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on April 5, 2023, dismissed the state of Louisiana's challenge to federal agencies use of the "social cost of greenhouse gases" in federal decision making.1 Several...more
In March 2023, the Administration took another major step in its strategic roadmap to combat and hold PFAS users accountable for PFAS contamination by proposing new rules establishing the first-ever national drinking water...more
In a report entitled “Bold Goals for U.S. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing,” the White House recently announced several biotech-related “bold goals” to advance the environmental, agricultural, economic, health, and science...more
On February 10, 2023, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion in Sierra Club, et al. v. U.S. EPA, et al., (Case No. 21-3057). The case involved a petition for review filed by the Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, and...more
In implementing its first new COVID-19 travel restriction in months, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued guidance requiring all persons traveling from mainland China, Hong Kong, and...more
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration[1] announced that on May 11, 2023 it plans to end the COVID-19 national emergency (Outbreak Period) and public health emergency (Public Health Emergency), which were declared by...more
On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its plan to end the COVID-19 public health and national emergency declarations on May 11, 2023, more than three years after the declarations initially took effect. ...more
On January 10, the Biden-Harris Administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization: A Joint Strategy to Transform Transportation, which is designed to cut all greenhouse emissions from the...more
This alert looks at developments in environmental law that were at the forefront in 2022; the trend is expected to continue into 2023 as the Biden administration continues to act on its regulatory initiatives in the energy...more