For the past three years, CMBG3 has supported the efforts of School on Wheels in Massachusetts, which fights to provide children in need or affected by homelessness with the necessary basics for their education. The firm donated to the organization last year to...
Congratulations to Kendra Bergeron, Jeniffer Carson, John Gardella, Brendan Gaughan, David Goldman and Bryna Misiura for being named to the 2022 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list. In addition, Eric Robbie was named to the 2022 Massachusetts Rising Star list. Super...
Last week, the New York Department of Health (DOH) proposed adding four PFAS to the New York PFAS drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS. Under the DOH proposal, PFDA, PFNA, PFHxS and PFHpA would be added to the state's regulated chemicals list, with Maximum...
On Friday, October 7, 2022, the EPA formally sent its proposed PFAS drinking water rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget for consideration and approval or rejection. While the details of the rule under consideration are not yet known, what is evident...
We previously wrote regarding the presiding Judge's ruling in the PFAS MDL requesting the parties to select three bellwether cases for trial in 2023 and to agree on the order in which they will be tried. The parties agreed that the Stuart (FL) v. 3M, et al. case would...
We previously reported on three significant pieces of California PFAS legislation that were before California's Governor Newsom for ratification. Two of the bills were passed, which means that several categories of products will have applicable PFAS bans. The third...
In a significant development related to PFAS, the World Health Organization (WHO) on September 29, 2022 issued a draft "PFOS and PFOS In Drinking-Water" Background Document, which will inform the WHO's recommendations for drinking water guidelines. The WHO PFAS...
On June 15, 2022, the EPA issued Health Advisories (HAs) for five specific PFAS, including GenX PFAS chemicals. The PFAS GenX health advisories set levels at 10ppt for this chemical group. On July 13, 2022, The Chemours Co. filed a petition in the Third Circuit...
Last week, the parties in litigation in Michigan announced to the Court that they had reached an agreement to resolve the environmental pollution claims pertaining to PFAS land contamination. The PFAS settlement was for the sum of $54 million. The lawsuit was brought...
For the past few years, the European PFAS litigation has largely escaped being at the forefront of PFAS news articles, as the EU and member states' efforts to enact regulations and the U.S. PFAS litigation dominated the daily updates. Recently, however, PFAS...