On July 15, 2021, Maine passed what was touted as the most aggressive PFAS bill related to products thus far in the country. While true that the Maine PFAS products bill is the most far-reaching PFAS bill in the United States to date in terms of the scope of products...
On August 6, 2021, Illinois became the twelfth state in the United States to ban PFAS-containing class B firefighting foam (also referred to as aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF). The PFAS Reduction Act (SB 561) was passed by unanimous vote of the legislature not...
On April 13, 2021, House representatives introduced the PFAS Action Act 2021, a comprehensive 40 page piece of legislation that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take several significant PFAS regulatory actions. Last week, the bill passed in...
Yesterday, the EPA PFAS release data was disclosed to the public for the first time, which is the result of a nearly year-long effort by the agency to have companies disclose PFAS discharge information. The data collected relates to only 38 facilities in the United...
The latest EPA PFAS action on Monday, July 13, 2021 shows once again that the agency is seeking to aggressively regulate certain PFAS compounds under the Safe Drinking Water Act. However, the EPA's action on Monday is notable because it is one of the first instances...
On May 18, 2021, a bill was signed into law related to Vermont PFAS legislation that is one of the most aggressive pieces of legislation related to PFAS in the country. The legislation (S 20) is similar to a version of the bill that was proposed in years past;...
PFAS medical monitoring costs is not a new topic for the litigation - it is something that plaintiffs' counsel push for either as a damages component to a cause of action or as a term for settlement negotiations in PFAS cases. Yet, to date, very few states allow for...
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...
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 allege that the...
In March 2021, we reported on a PFAS paper mill lawsuit in Maine, which was a class action lawsuit was filed in Maine by residents of Fairfield, Maine, alleging that a paper mill company polluted residential land with PFAS. The plaintiffs allege that the PFAS...