Farella Perspectives

5/19/2025 5:26:05 PM

CalRecycle releases updated draft regulations to implement SB 54, California’s EPR law applicable to single-use packaging and plastic food service ware

By Chris Rendall-Jackson

On May 16, 2025, CalRecycle released updated draft regulations to implement SB 54, which is California’s extended producer responsibility...

5/15/2025 10:35:06 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Hayleigh Shobar +1 more...

On May 14, 2025, EPA issued a news release (available here) stating that the agency will maintain the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)...

5/12/2025 7:54:09 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

On May 12, 2025, EPA announced that it will publish an interim rule further delaying by nine months the one-time reporting required under...

5/7/2025 10:41:36 PM

By Chris Rendall-Jackson

On May 2, 2025, the Eastern District of California found that Prop 65 warning requirements for dietary acrylamide violate the First...

4/29/2025 11:25:05 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

Interested parties — including businesses raising crops or animals on agricultural and ranch lands potentially impacted by PFAS in...

4/21/2025 5:42:28 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

The California Senate’s Environmental Quality Committee recently passed, as amended, SB 682, and referred the bill to the Senate...

4/14/2025 9:12:53 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

On April 2, 2025, Inhance Technologies LLC initiated an action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia—Inhance...

4/8/2025 6:07:22 PM

By Chris Rendall-Jackson

On April 4, CalRecycle published its final material characterization study (Study) pursuant to SB 343. Under SB 343, use of the chasing...

3/18/2025 6:31:51 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

In February 2025, newly installed EPA leadership sought and obtained orders from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals staying pending legal...

3/18/2025 6:26:15 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

Interested parties—including businesses raising crops or animals on agricultural and ranch lands potentially impacted by PFAS in...

1/15/2025 9:51:37 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

On January 14, 2025, EPA released for public comment its Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and...

1/7/2025 6:08:42 PM

By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman

On January 3, 2025, EPA issued a press release announcing that nine additional PFAS had been added to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)...