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Addressing PFAS continues to challenge local government, water providers, and wastewater providers, particularly in a rapidly changing regulatory environment. Regulatory initiatives will have costly and widespread impacts on...more
Interested parties—including businesses raising crops or animals on agricultural and ranch lands potentially impacted by PFAS in groundwater; entities operating wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs); and related interest groups...more
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (“MPCA”) prepared a January 2025 Report titled: PFAS Removal Report – Strategies and funding options to address PFAS removal in drinking water and wastewater (“Report”)....more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on behalf of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) entered into a January 16th Consent Decree (“CD”) with the operators of the Oasis Mobile Home Park (“Park”) for...more
PFAS are everywhere—even when they’re not. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is garnering significant media attention for suggesting that a crisis exists because of...more
Traditional sources of freshwater are dwindling as a result of increased demand, reduced natural replenishment, volatile weather patterns, and extended-duration droughts. Desalination, the industrial-scale removal of salt...more
Food and Water Watch and dozens of other environmental organizations submitted a November 25th petition to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) requesting that microplastics be included in the Sixth...more
A lawsuit filed earlier this year highlights potential PFAS liability exposure for fertilizer manufacturers, especially those that produce biosolid-based products. Five Texas farmers have sued Synagro Technologies, alleging...more
Various municipalities and public wastewater and stormwater utilities have filed a joint Amici Curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court Case styled: City and County of San Francisco v EPA...more
On Friday,19 April 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule to designate two common per-and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid...more
On April 19, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it is designating perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”) as Hazardous Substances under the...more
PART II - As detailed in Part 1 of this eAlert, on April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS),...more
EPA’s listing of two “forever Chemicals” as CERCLA hazardous substances will re-open sites that companies had thought were closed. And every user of a product that contained them may become responsible for a share of the...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a prepublication version of a Final Rule that would designate two of the Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) as Comprehensive Environmental Response,...more
2023 was a busy year for folks following legal developments related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). In December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its Second Annual Progress Report. Some of...more
Virginia AG Jason Miyares reached an $80 million settlement with Monsanto Co. to resolve allegations that the company’s distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) caused environmental contamination in the state....more
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that civil claims brought under the federal RICO Act be permitted to proceed to discovery in a lawsuit stemming from public drinking water contamination with per-and polyfluoroalkyl...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is rolling out a robust enforcement program aimed at wastewater treatment plants and other wastewater operations for potential contamination based on Section 301 of the Clean Water Act...more
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of man-made chemicals used in various industries, such as food packaging, cosmetics, and household products. More than 10,000 chemical substances can be classified as...more
On June 21, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) issued final regulations addressing nitrogen pollution caused by septic systems on Cape Cod. The regulations will require landowners in “Nitrogen...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to expand its toolbox for addressing PFAS constituents — this time, by branching out into Clean Water Act (CWA) enforcement of industrial permit effluent limitations....more
Last week, EPA issued its long-anticipated proposal for Maximum Contaminant Levels (“MCLs”) for certain PFAS compounds which, once finalized, will establish national limits for those compounds in drinking water. EPA has been...more
On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it will seek to promulgate new rules for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), also known as “forever chemicals,” in public water...more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently signaled a path forward on its roadmap to address PFAS contamination, something industry, water suppliers, and wastewater treatment operators, to name a few, have been...more
Now that EPA has designated as "hazardous substances" at least two of the hundreds of "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS, does it make sense for the hundreds if not thousands of cities and towns across the country...more