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 EPA Announces It Will Keep Drinking Water Limits for PFOA and PFOS, But Rescind Limits for Four Other PFAS Compounds By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Hayleigh Shobar Don Sobelman +1 more... Show less 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 EPA Announces Interim Rule Further Delaying TSCA Section 8(a)(7) PFAS Reporting by Nine Months 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 District Court Issues Permanent Injunction Enjoining Enforcement of Prop 65 Warning Requirements for Dietary Acrylamide 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 Comment Period Extended Again for Federal PFOA/PFOS Risk Assessment for Sewage Sludge Applied to Agricultural Land as Fertilizer 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 California Legislation Banning Wide Range of PFAS-Containing Products (SB 682) Moves Forward in Senate Committees 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 Industrial Company Files Action Challenging EPA Disclosure of Confidential Business Information Submitted to EPA During Enforcement Action Proceedings 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 CalRecycle publishes a final material characterization study, triggering the deadline to comply with SB 343 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 EPA Signals Potential Change of Position Regarding Key 2024 PFAS Rulemakings 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 Comment Period Closing in 30 Days (April 16) on Federal PFOA/PFOS Risk Assessment for Sewage Sludge Applied to Agricultural Land as Fertilizer 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 EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessment for PFOA and PFOS in Biosolids 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 EPA Announces Automatic Addition of Nine Additional PFAS to Toxics Release Inventory 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)...