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Forever Chemicals: What They are and What is being Done to Minimize Their Impact
On August 1, 2025, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a judgment upholding the 2022 decision of the General Court annulling the 2019 harmonized classification and labeling of titanium dioxide as a carcinogenic...more
On July 22, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C.) Circuit granted a motion by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lift the abeyance in consolidated litigation challenging the agency’s...more
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has recently announced that it will be evaluating three plasticizers between June 9-16 of 2026. The additives to be evaluated include butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP),...more
Earthjustice submitted a July 28th document to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) styled: Petition for Emergency Action under the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300i and 42 U.S.C. §...more
A recent study published in Nature Microbiology by researchers at the University of Cambridge revealed that certain human gut bacteria may have the capacity to bioaccumulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and...more
Monsanto has recently settled with families who claimed they were exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at a school near Seattle, ending what had become one of the most closely watched toxic tort cases in recent memory....more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos, a landmark regulatory action under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), is now subject to significant delay following legal challenges and...more
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit requesting that litigation over its 2024 final rule regulating chrysotile asbestos under the...more
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—a branch of the World Health Organization mandated to investigate potential causes of cancer—conducts its own hazard evaluations of suspected carcinogens and publishes...more
The Environmental Science & Technology Journal found in a 2025 study that 95% of 23 tested beers brewed across the United States contain varying levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS are synthetic...more
On May 13, New Jersey Attorney General (AG) Matthew Platkin announced a proposed $450 million settlement agreement with 3M regarding allegations that, among other issues, contamination of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl...more
Six environmental organizations submitted an April 15th Petition to the Alabama Environmental Management Commission to amend Ala. (ADEM) Admin. Code Chap. 335-6-10, Appendix A....more
Last month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced its new classification for “automotive gasoline and some oxygenated gasoline additives.” In a result that follows IARC’s previous pattern and...more
Insights from decades of intense scrutiny of dioxins and PCBs in the environment, beginning in the 1960s, remain pertinent to our current challenges with PFAS. The lessons learned regarding detection and measurement,...more
PFAS-related litigation continues to climb and to diversify as to claims and parties. See the attached graphics, updated through the first quarter of 2025. We will continue to update these graphics on a quarterly basis....more
A Colorado jury issued a defense verdict following a six-week trial during which four women alleged their respective cancers were caused by exposure to EtO emitted by the nearby Terumo Blood & Cell Technologies Lakewood plant...more
Maryland has filed suit against W.L. Gore & Associates (Gore), a downstream user of PFAS-containing materials, alleging that its manufacturing processes contributed to PFAS contamination through its use of...more
In a move that signals potential policy shifts under the new administration, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted EPA’s requests for 60-day stays in two high-profile cases challenging...more
Two environmental organizations sent a May 17th document to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) styled: Notice of Intent to File Suit to Compel Performance of a Non-Discretionary Duty Under Section...more
Environmental groups are once again urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expedite its re-evaluation of atrazine, a widely used herbicide with significant...more
As part of the agency’s efforts to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the EPA released a draft risk assessment for use of sewage sludge that is land-applied as a soil conditioner or fertilizer. Public...more
Maryland AG Anthony Brown has filed a lawsuit against W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) alleging violations of state and federal consumer and environmental protection laws stemming from contamination caused by per- and...more
PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of thousands of chemicals manufactured since the 1940s for use in consumer products and industrial processes. This article presents an overview of the PFAS phenomenon. ...more
On May 15, BIC USA Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court concerning allegations that some of its razors contain per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS), sometimes referred to as “forever...more
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as “forever chemicals,” have been in use since the 1940s and have been added to a wide variety of products to make them resistant to heat, water, oil, and corrosion. PFAS...more