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Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Beverage Breakdown (August 2024)

Welcome to Nutter's Beverage Breakdown, a periodic legal update on noteworthy developments related to the alcohol beverage industry, including industry news, federal and state updates, and more. ...more

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PFAS in Food Packaging: State-by-state Regulations - Updated March 2024

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In the absence of comprehensive federal regulation of PFAS in food packaging, states are dishing out their own laws. Thus far, twelve states have enacted laws addressing PFAS substances in food containers and packaging...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Fluoropolymer Focus

As federal and state governments race to regulate a class of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), their broad efforts sweep in thousands of individual chemicals—from those for which scientific...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

How Companies Can Audit Insurance Policies to Determine PFAS Coverage

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Companies operating in the food and beverage industry are dealing with PFAS-related issues on a daily basis. So far, twelve states have passed legislation regulating PFAS, and each of those twelve states explicitly targets...more

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Sunshine may be among the best disinfectants but these PFAS defendants are fighting to keep their settlement with Rome, Georgia...

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Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously exclaimed sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. Of course the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Rome News-Tribune endorse that proposition. And, the newspapers...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

EPA Endorses New Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments

After unexpected controversy earlier in the year, on December 15, 2022 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Final Rule unambiguously recognizing the ASTM International Standard E1527-21 for Phase I...more

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Focus on State Action

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California - The California Assembly recently passed three different PFAS-related bills. Advocates on both sides of these issues presented their positions to Governor Gavin Newsome, urging him to either sign or veto the...more

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Colorado PFAS Act Likely Just the Beginning of New PFAS Chemical Regulation

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The term “PFAS” has become a “four-letter word” that refers to a common group of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemical substances, which are the subject of increasing regulation. There are several key takeways from this...more

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What is a PFAS, and Why Should I Care?

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We are bombarded with countless abbreviations every day - CPPA, GLBA, MSRP, SARS and BPA, to name just a few. Time to add one more to the list. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, colloquially known as PFAS, are a class of...more

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Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Signals PFAS Legislation to Come

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In December 2021, Chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, Tom Carper, told the Department of Defense that the Committee was working on a “legislative package to address PFAS contamination—building off of...more

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Biden Billions for PFAS in Drinking Water

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The monumental infrastructure bill that President Biden signed yesterday will send $10 billion to the States to pass on to drinking water suppliers to test for the "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS and then...more

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PFAS Added to Toxic Release Inventory Reporting

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At the end of 2019, President Trump signed into law the “PFAS Act of 2019” (contained in the National Defense Authorization Act), triggering reporting of a significant number of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for...more

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NDAttention – National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Adds Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Chemicals to TRI

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 20, 2019, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA) was signed into law, including provisions for adding certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the EPA’s...more

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