Over 112 million people tuned in on Super Bowl Sunday to watch the NFL championship game, many of them also (or even exclusively) to watch the commercials that aired throughout the night. Even the casual viewer likely noticed almost ten different commercials that...
On February 18, 2022, a bill was introduced in California that would ban the sale in California of any cosmetics and personal care products that contain any type of PFAS. Concurrently, a similar bill is making its way through the Washington state legislative process,...
Environmental justice groups are asking the EPA to, for the first time, reject a state implementation plan (SIP) pertaining to pollutants - in this instance, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) - due solely to environmental justice reasons. More specifically, the request...
On February 11, 2022, several conservation groups filed a Petition challenging the federal government's approval of a rail line that would link the national rail network to oil and gas resources in Utah and Colorado. While many of the groups' arguments focus on...
In the latest state-level legislative action aimed at addressing PFAS concerns of citizens, Minnesota joined the fray by introducing three bills that, if enacted, would lead to a PFAS products ban for certain consumer goods. Some states, such as New York and Maine,...
In June 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed in California in which restaurant greenwashing was alleged due to sustainability statements made on Red Lobster's menus. Now, Red Lobster has filed pleadings with the court seeking to have the case dismissed, arguing that...
In August 2021, we wrote about a first-of-its-kind law introduced in Maine that banned intentionally added PFAS from any products sold in the state of Maine. Now, a New York PFAS products bill aims to mimic the Maine law and implement a ban on intentionally added PFAS...
Join CMBG3 Law's John Gardella on Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 2:00 PM EST for the webinar The Environmental Justice Movement: Turning Concepts into Actions, hosted by the Antea Group. Low-income, minority, tribal, and indigenous communities are more likely to be...
A study published in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry on January 11, 2022 detailed how current methods of testing for certain volatile PFAS may be resulting in abnormally high false positives. The article, Mass-Labeled Flourotelomer Alcohol...
On February 2, 2022, the EPA released its draft Toxicological Review of PFHxA and Related Salts, the latest risk assessment put forth by the EPA for certain types of PFAS. The PFAS risk assessment related to PFHxA is noteworthy because the Reference Dose (RfD)...