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2024 Has Been a Big Year for EPA with Significant Implications for Manufacturers as EPA Executes on its PFAS Strategic Roadmap

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/1/2024

In 2021 the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued its strategic roadmap to address a broad group of thousands of manmade chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), pledging to use “every tool in...more

Product Importers: Are You Ready for the New PFAS Reporting Requirements Under TSCA?

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/27/2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching and important final rule (Rule) on Oct. 11, 2023, requiring comprehensive reporting of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufactured and...more

EPA Issues Final Rule Requiring TRI Reporting for Seven Additional PFAS

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. on 5/23/2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule on May 17, 2024, to update the list of chemicals subject to Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting to include seven additional per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more

EPA Adds Seven PFAS Chemical Compounds to the Toxic Release Inventory

Williams Mullen on 5/22/2024

In a final rule published on May 17, 2024, and to become effective June 17, 2024, EPA has added seven per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of chemicals subject to toxic chemical release reporting under the...more

2023 PFAS Year in Review: EPA Policy and Aqueous Film-Forming Foam Litigation Updates

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/18/2024

2023 was a busy year for folks following legal developments related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). In December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its Second Annual Progress Report. Some of...more

PFAS and NDAA 2024

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/21/2023

We took a look at the 2024 NDAA with respect to PFAS, since Congress has a track record of passing substantive provisions to require EPA to regulate PFAS in prior NDAA legislation. Although not as consequential as the 2020...more

EPA Releases Final Rule Increasing PFAS Reporting Under EPCRA

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 10/30/2023

On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new final rule that categorized as chemicals of special concern all per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that industry must currently...more

US EPA Issues Final Rule on PFAS Relating to Community Right-to-Know and Pollution Prevention Acts

Troutman Pepper on 10/30/2023

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

EPA Publishes Comprehensive PFAS Reporting Rule Under TSCA

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/20/2023

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching and enormously important final rule (Rule) on Oct. 11, 2023, requiring comprehensive reporting of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufactured...more

Manufacturers Face Daunting Reporting Requirements Under EPA's TSCA PFAS Reporting Rule

MG+M The Law Firm on 10/19/2023

On October 11, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a final rule, under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), that establishes reporting requirements for manufacturers of...more

EPA Releases Final TSCA Section 8(a)(7) Reporting Rule for PFAS

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. on 10/11/2023

On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a long-overdue final rule under Section 8(a)(7) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regarding reporting and recordkeeping requirements for...more

EPA’s Mandatory PFAS Reporting Rule Under TSCA Includes Thousands of Products, No Exemptions for Impurities or Imported Articles

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/9/2023

On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule to require reporting under Section 8(a)(7) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances...more

EPA Seeks Comment on Air Pollutant Reporting for PFAS

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/10/2023

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on July 25, 2023, a proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on Aug. 9, 2023, to update the Air Emissions Reporting Requirements (AERR) to collect certain...more

USGS Studies PFAS in Tap Water

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/17/2023

As part of the PFAS Strategic Science Vision for the U.S. Geological Survey (“USGS”) and consistent with the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, which identified activities related to PFAS where USGS...more

EPA Proposes to Expand TRI Reporting Requirements for PFAS and Other Chemicals of Special Concern

Williams Mullen on 12/19/2022

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

EPA’s Spring 2022 Regulatory Agenda Updates Actions for PFAS Strategic Roadmap

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/14/2022

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

U.S. EPA Announces Plan to Tighten PFAS Reporting Requirements

Jenner & Block on 3/7/2022

In connection with the release of its 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis that evidenced a 10% decline in environmental releases of TRI chemicals between 2019 and 2020, U.S. EPA announced that it intends to...more

US Government Presses on with PFAS Regulation

Morgan Lewis on 12/20/2021

The US government took another step toward further regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on December 15 with the US Senate passing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 by a vote of...more

The ABCs of PFAS: What You Need to Know About Liabilities for the “Forever Chemical”

White and Williams LLP on 2/8/2021

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly referred to as PFAS or PFOS, have been a key ingredient in numerous industrial and consumer products for decades. These man-made chemicals are prevalent and are also...more

PFAS - EPA Interim Guidance on How to Say Goodbye to Your "Forever Chemicals"

K&L Gates LLP on 1/13/2021

In response to Congressional direction in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, Public Law No: 116-92, on 18 December 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued “Interim Guidance on the...more

PFAS in Firefighting Foam Has Contaminated Water Resources on Military Bases and in Surrounding Communities

Sullivan & Worcester on 10/16/2020

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are found in firefighting foam used by the military since the 1970’s for training exercises and to extinguish liquid and gas fires. These compounds are part...more

PFAS Update: August 2020

Sullivan & Worcester on 8/6/2020

There have been several recent developments involving PFAS regulation, most notably the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) for certain long-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS)....more

PFAS Legislation Aims to Impact Clean Water Utilities

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 7/24/2019

The United States House of Representatives has passed per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) legislation as part of annual amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”), H.R. 2500. Two last-minute...more

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