The EPA recently released the Federal Lead Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts, which primarily seeks to reduce exposure from paint, drinking water, soil and emissions. Limiting exposure through cosmetics and consumer...
Two manufacturers of toddler formulas (Nutraceutical Corp. and Graceleigh Inc.) agreed to stop selling their products (Peaceful Plant Toddler Supreme Formula and Sammy's Free-Range Goat Milk Toddler Formula) in California after the California Attorney General sent...
CMBG3 Law previously reported on Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation's (Mateel), an environmental watch group, efforts to urge the California Appeals Court to Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to repeal the regulatory limit of .05 micrograms...
California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly referred to as “Proposition 65” or “Prop 65”) was passed with the intention of providing consumers with information regarding cancer-causing agents in products that would allow consumers to...
CMBG3 Law previously reported on a pending lead paint case in California (The People of the State of California v. Atlantic Richfield Co. et al., case number H040880, in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Sixth Appellate District) in which paint...
In August of 2017, CMBG3 reported on the Sixth Circuit court’s ruling that revived two class action lawsuits regarding lead-contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan, finding that the Safe Drinking Water Act does not preempt the lawsuits from proceeding. The...
As CMBG3 Law previoulsy reported, a California trial court ruled that paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams Co. and two former lead pigment makers (ConAgra Grocery Products and NL Industries) must pay $1.15 billion to abate lead paint in millions of homes in California....
Given the events in recent years that have taken place in Flint, Michigan regarding lead particles in the community drinking water, there has been a significant uptick in news and attention paid to the potential for lead particles in drinking water sources to cause...
Last week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that three lawsuits against Michigan’s environmental officials over Flint’s lead-tainted water must be litigated in the state court and not the federal court. At the heart of the appeal was whether the officials were...
Boston area schools started a new school year recently and two organizations took steps to ensure that parents were made aware of steps that they could take to reduce the likelihood that their children would ingest lead particles from drinking water sources. As part...