Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Bringing Predictive Analytics into Your Compliance Regime
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 5 – Monitoring Activities
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Objective 2 - Risk Assessment
FCPA Compliance Report: Fraud Risk Management - Insights and Experiences with Peter Schablik
#Risk New York Speaker Series – Inside Behavioral Insights: Tom Hardin on Compliance at #RiskNYC
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Framework
#Risk New York Speaker Series: Exploring AI Risks in Compliance with Gwen Hassan
Healthcare Enterprise Risk Management
Compliance Tip of the Day: Assessing Internal Controls in International Operations
Managing Sanctions Compliance
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 68 - Why Geopolitical Risk Matters to Compliance and Legal Staff with Mark Nuttal and Chad Olsen
FCPA Compliance Report: Amanda Carty on a Due Diligence and Risk Management
Episode 364 -- Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment
Strengthening Compliance: Lessons From the OCC's Consent Order With Patriot Bank — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Compliance and AI: Ali Khan on Implementing AI Risk Management Systems
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
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on July 28, 2025, the release of a memorandum with additional context on occupational exposure data for di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). According to EPA, the...more
The Environmental Protection Agency announced July 18 it would continue workforce reductions through the elimination of its Office of Research and Development, which provides the independent scientific research that underpins...more
On June 30, 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report entitled 2D Titanium Carbide MXenes: Case Study Report on Advanced Materials. Within OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured...more
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the draft charge questions for discussion at the upcoming Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) meeting to review all...more
The European Commission (EC) requested that the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) assess the risks posed by certain hexavalent chromium substances. ECHA announced on April 29, 2025, that it has concluded that a European Union...more
On April 17, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the comment period on a draft risk assessment of the potential human health risks associated with the presence of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and...more
The U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) plays a critical role in regulating chemicals to safeguard human health and the environment. Its 2016 amendment expanded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA's)...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
On January 14, 2025, the EPA released for public comment a risk assessment report evaluating the potential risks associated with land application and land disposal of biosolids containing two types of PFAS, PFOA and PFOS....more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently enacted further restrictions for three chlorinated solvents – trichloroethylene (“TCE”), perchloroethylene (“PCE”) and carbon tetrachloride (“CTC”). On December 17...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released final risk management rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) on December 9, 2024, and for carbon...more
Companies using formaldehyde in their manufacturing processes and/or selling products incorporating formaldehyde-containing components from upstream suppliers face significant challenges in an evolving regulatory landscape....more
On May 3, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its Final Rule that amends the risk evaluation process for chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the steps chemical manufacturers and...more
On Wednesday, 10 April 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This came one day...more
On March 15, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the draft risk evaluation for formaldehyde for public comment and peer review. The draft risk evaluation was promulgated pursuant to EPA’s...more
On March 11, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register amendments to the Risk Management Program (RMP) rule (Final Rule). Going into effect on May 10, 2024, EPA’s Final Rule, named the...more
States across the country have been regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) over the last few years. Recent actions taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) underscores that point:...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial final risk evaluation for 1,4-dioxane found unreasonable risks to workers and occupational non-users for 13 out of 24 use conditions, but no unreasonable risks to the...more
The EPA’s supplemental analysis includes certain consumer exposures, as well as surface/ambient water exposures, to 1,4-dioxane. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released an expanded risk evaluation for...more
26 states have either passed or proposed regulations regarding per- or polyfluoroalkyl (“PFAS”) based Class B Aqueous Film-Forming foams (“AFFF”) used for firefighting. These regulations typically involve restrictions in four...more
Recently, we have addressed the evolving regulatory landscape for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as the federal and state governments grapple with finding the best approach to handle PFAS releases from...more
On Friday, MassDEP proposed a number of revisions to the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, including reporting and cleanup standards for PFAS. The proposed GW-1 standard, applicable to current and potential drinking water...more
Concern about the impacts of Poly- and Perflouroalkyl Substances is extensive and growing. Without seeking to downplay the potential risks from PFAS exposure, I do think that the way we are addressing PFAS demonstrates...more
Time to Pay More: EPA Increases Maximum Civil Penalties - Remember the days when the maximum civil penalty EPA could assess for a violation of environmental law was $25,000 per day? Those days disappeared 26 years ago...more