On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”) released details of its highly anticipated rule listing perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”), two forms...more
On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”) released details of its highly anticipated rule listing perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”), two forms...more
Join Kelley Drye for a seminar on the latest regulatory developments that are likely to usher in expansive new liability for the release and remediation of some of the most widely utilized per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...more
4/18/2024
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Safe Drinking Water Act
On April 10, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced the first enforceable federal drinking water standards under the Safe Drinking Water Act (“SDWA”) for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more
On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a stay of its final rules on climate-related disclosures. As detailed in our previous advisory on the topic, days after the final rules were issued in...more
Ending two years of anticipation over the final contours of its controversial foray into requiring a sweeping range of public company disclosures of business risks associated with climate change, the U.S. Securities and...more
On January 31, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”) issued a proposal to amend Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) regulations to include nine specific per- and...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement arm intends to focus the Agency’s remediation and cost-recovery efforts under the federal Superfund law on manufacturers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and...more
Concerns about potential widespread lead contamination of residential neighborhoods, schools and drinking water supplies from lead sheathing in telecommunications wires, fueled by a series of recent articles in the Wall...more
In recent months, state legislatures have introduced numerous regulations restricting the sale of consumer products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and adopting legal drinking water standards for the...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released proposed national drinking water standards for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pursuant to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)—a key...more
A new paper from Northeastern University’s PFAS Project Lab and researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) reaches the sobering conclusion that over 57,000 sites in the U.S. have...more
The PFAS Roadmap set out a three-pronged approach to their regulation: First, research the chemicals and their exposure pathways; Second, restrict PFAS output through regulation; and Third, require remediation of PFAS...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released its much-anticipated plan, nearly a year in the making, to address per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances in the environment. Building on a Law360 of the same name,...more
On December 18, 2020, as required by § 7361 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Interim Guidance on Destroying and Disposing of PFAS and Materials...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will terminate its temporary policy regarding the exercise of enforcement discretion during the COVID-19 public health crisis on Monday, August 31, 2020. So, on September 1,...more
In late March of this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its Temporary COVID-19 Enforcement Policy, summarized here, which provided for more flexibility in enforcement during the pandemic. As some states...more
On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) sent a Memorandum to all governmental and private sector partners titled “COVID-19 Implications for EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance...more
On March 26, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “Agency”) sent a Memorandum to all governmental and private sector partners titled “COVID-19 Implications for EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance Assurance...more
3/31/2020
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