Risk Management, Regulatory Oversight, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

EPA Releases Draft Charge Questions for SACC Meeting on Phthalates and Memorandum on Proposed Refinement for Estimating DBP Skin...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. on 6/19/2025

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

EPA Withdraws Cybersecurity Rule for Public Water Systems

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/6/2023

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has formally withdrawn cybersecurity rules it promulgated in March requiring that states report cybersecurity threats to their public water systems (PWS). The reversal comes in...more

Companies that Use and Emit Ethylene Oxide Should be Aware of Upcoming Regulatory Action and Litigation Risks

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 7/22/2022

In our earlier post, Public and Regulatory Attention to Forever Chemicals is at an All-Time High, we discussed the expected and upcoming regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”). Another chemical expected to...more

Heightened Risk to the Regulated Community: U.S. EPA Overfiling

Jenner & Block on 2/9/2022

In what could portend significant risk to the regulated community, a recent “overfiling” by U.S. EPA in connection with a Clean Air Act (CAA) settlement between the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and a...more

Congressional Investigations: What the Energy Sector Should Do to Prepare

WilmerHale on 2/1/2019

This is the inaugural issue of WilmerHale’s 10-in-10 Hot Topics in Energy Series. Over the next 10 weeks, our attorneys will share insights on current and emerging issues affecting the US energy sector....more

U.S. EPA Delays Effectiveness of Obama Era Chemical Safety Regulation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/15/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a final rule to further delay the effective date of EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) Amendments an additional 20 months to allow the agency to conduct a...more