The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule on May 17, 2024, updating the list of chemicals subject to reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and the...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
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, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention submitted a final rule for publication in the Federal Register, amending 40 CFR Part 372, involving reporting...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) has issued two pre-publication announcements on notable regulatory actions that may affect your business. The first one will increase the amount of information that...more
EPA’s Big Plans for 2023: Top Air Rulemakings We Are Watching - An environmental lawyer walks into a cocktail party. An often-asked question is: What is happening at EPA in your world? What should we be watching that...more
EPA is proposing to add per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) subject to reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (“EPCRA”) and the Pollution Prevention Act (“PPA”) pursuant to the...more
On December 5, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule that would affect industries required to report the use of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory...more
On October 18, 2021, EPA announced EPA’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap (“Roadmap”) which outlines EPA’s comprehensive agency wide approach for addressing PFAS. The Roadmap contains timelines for EPA to take actions to address PFAS....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Ferrara Candy Company (“FCC”) entered into an August 2nd Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Comprehensive Environmental Response,...more
PFAS continues to be an area of focus for EPA and state agencies, as well as an ever-increasing litigation risk for companies that have manufactured, imported, processed, or otherwise used products including chemicals...more
EPA is currently reviewing comments on its November 14, 2018 proposed rule to exempt livestock farms from reporting routine farm air emissions under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and intends...more
On April 11, 2017, the Federal Court struck down the 2008 EPA Rule exempting most farms from reporting releases of hazardous air pollutants under CERCLA and EPCRA. The rule exempted farms which had fewer animals than large...more