On September 18, 2024, John Gardella will speak at Chemical Watch's PFAS Updates North America 2024 at 3:15pm ET in Alexandria, Virginia. The one day conference hosts several invited speakers to discuss critical PFAS issues impacting companies in North America. John's...
On September 16, 2024, John Gardella will speak at Chemical Watch's Regulatory Summit North America 2024 at 4pm ET in Alexandria, Virginia. The two day conference hosts several invited speakers to discuss critical regulatory issues that have been and will impact...
Attorney Karlene Manley will speak at NAMWOLF's Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday, September 16, 2024 at 1:25pm ET. Her panel's topic is titled "Counseling Manufacturers On PFAS: Navigating the Rapidly Evolving Legal Landscape Over 'Forever Chemicals.'"...
John Gardella was recently interviewed by Pam McFarland, reporter for Engineering News-Record (ENR) on the 3rd Circuit Court's recent decision to dismiss a legal challenge by Chemours of the EPA's Health Advisory Level for GenX (see our prior article on the Court's...
CMBG3 Law is deeply honored to be a recipient of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2024 Empowering Women award. The award recognizes law firms that have shown a strong commitment to supporting and elevating women attorneys in Massachusetts, and showcase tangible and...
We previously reported on Canada's efforts to regulate PFAS in drinking water, which at the time were proposed in virtual lock step with EPA's drinking water initiatives (albeit with not as stringent a proposed drinking water level as the United States). Now, though,...
Roughly two years ago, we reported on the World Health Organization's (WHO) draft recommendations that nations adopt a 100 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOA and PFOS, and 500 ppt for all testable PFAS types (which at the time were 30 PFAS types). Our prior report...
John Gardella recently joined HB Litigation on a webinar entitled “PFAS Litigation: Predicted Trends Given Regulatory Changes”, a CLE certified webinar hosted by Tom Hagy. John discussed the landscape of regulatory changes and upcoming changes, and how these will...
As part of its lead up to issuing proposed and final drinking water standards for PFAS under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), EPA in June 2022 issued a Health Advisory Level (HAL) for four PFAS, including GenX. Chemours immediately challenged the HAL in court,...
We have regularly reported on the EPA‘s long-anticipated rule to designate PFOA and PFOS as “hazardous substances” under CERCLA. In April 2024, the EPA also issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), which aimed to have seven additional PFAS added to...