by John Gardella | Jun 20, 2021 | Environmental, ESG, PFAS
PFAS in cosmetics has received steadily increasing media attention and with the publication of a June 15, 2021 scientific study in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology Letters, the attention on this issue suddenly increased significantly at the...
by John Gardella | Jun 15, 2021 | News, PFAS
On June 11, 2021, Attorney Jessica Deyoe’s article “Whose PFAS Is It Anyway? Legal Defensibility of Nonstandard Environmental Analysis”, co-authored by Brian Drollette of Exponent, was published in the American Bar Association’s Journal. The...
by John Gardella | Jun 11, 2021 | Environmental, PFAS
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took three new actions related to PFAS, each of them significant to companies in the United States. The new EPA PFAS announcements included: (1) issuing a proposed rule that will gather comprehensive data on more...
by Luis A. Barba | Jun 10, 2021 | Litigation Management
S.B. 447, which has been sponsored by the Consumer Attorneys of California (an organization of 3,000 plaintiffs’ lawyers), seeks to overturn longstanding legislation to allow for pain and suffering damages to be compensated in a survival action. Under California...
by John Gardella | Jun 10, 2021 | Environmental, PFAS
For the past few years, two Georgia PFAS lawsuits have quietly worked their way through the legal system, both of which center on PFAS water contamination issues in the Northern Georgia region (the “carpet capital of the world”). In short, the lawsuits...