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...
9/4/2024 7:05:38 PM Multi-State Petition to EPA Seeks Listing of Four PFAS Compounds as Hazardous Air Pollutants Under the Clean Air Act By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman Three states have lodged a petition with EPA, seeking the listing of four PFAS compounds as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under the...
8/22/2024 12:39:01 AM Petition to EPA Seeks Cancellation and Suspension of Pesticide Registrations and Other Action Under FIFRA, Related to PFAS Content By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman A Legal Rulemaking Petition (citizen petition) has been lodged with EPA, seeking “cancellation and suspension of several existing...
7/31/2024 6:03:47 PM Pending Legal Challenge to EPA Designation of PFOA and PFOS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman A legal challenge is pending in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to EPA’s April 19, 2024 final rule designating...
6/24/2024 5:57:34 PM Fourth Circuit Affirms that Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction to Review EPA Grant of Petition Under TSCA to Test Fifty-Four PFAS By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman On June 10, 2024, in Center for Environmental Health v. Regan (No. 23-1476), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that federal courts...
6/13/2024 11:33:07 PM Two Legal Actions Challenge New EPA Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for Six PFAS in Drinking Water By Sarah Bell Chris Rendall-Jackson Don Sobelman Two legal challenges have been filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals with respect to EPA’s April 10, 2024, final rule setting...