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...
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...
1/7/2025 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)...
12/31/2024 12:27:25 AM EPA Announces Draft Human Health Criteria for Three PFAS in Waterbodies By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On December 19, 2024, EPA announced draft national recommended human health criteria (HHC) for three PFAS in waterbodies:...
12/10/2024 1:50:34 AM EPA Issues Supplemental Proposed Rule Updating SNURs for 17 PFAS By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On November 29, 2024, EPA issued a supplemental proposed rule to update significant new use rules (SNURs) previously proposed for 17 PFAS...
12/2/2024 8:12:23 PM Biden-Harris Administration Announces Release of EPA’s Third Annual Progress Report on the PFAS Strategic Roadmap By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On November 14, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the release of EPA’s third annual progress report on EPA’s PFAS Strategic...
10/22/2024 4:29:57 PM EPA Proposes Addition of 16 Individual and 15 Categories of PFAS to the TRI By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On October 8, 2024, the EPA proposed adding 16 individual and 15 categories of PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of...
10/2/2024 6:16:13 PM California AB 2515 signed into law, establishes significant penalties for the manufacture and sale of menstrual products containing regulated PFAS By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On September 30, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he signed AB 2515 into law. Among other things, AB 2515 prohibits...
9/9/2024 7:38:23 PM EPA Publishes Direct Final Rule Delaying TSCA Section 8(a)(7) PFAS Reporting by Eight Months By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On September 5, 2024, EPA published a direct final rule delaying by eight months the one-time reporting required under TSCA section...