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)...
Looking ahead to later in 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to review and update its "Green Guides", which "...set forth the Federal Trade Commission's current views about environmental claims. The guides help marketers [and companies] avoid making...
On January 24, 2022, the EPA continued to expand the number of PFAS subject to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) with the addition of four PFAS to the TRI. PFAS TRI reporting is an issue that has recently seen significant attention by environmentalists who claim that...
Attorney John Gardella was recently interviewed by Julia John, reporter for Chemical Watch, for her article regarding recent lawsuits against cosmetic industry companies for alleged "greenwashing" of consumers when certain of the companies' products contained PFAS....
We have repeatedly predicted that the EPA would seek to have at least two types of PFAS (PFOA and PFOS) designated as "hazardous substances" under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as the Superfund law)....
On January 10, 2022, the EPA submitted a plan for a PFAS Superfund designation to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) when it indicated an intent to designate two legacy PFAS - PFOA and PFOS - as "hazardous substances" under the Comprehensive...