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...
On September 16, 2022, the presiding Judge in the MDL for PFAS AFFF issued a ruling denying defendants' motions to apply the government contractor defense to the MDL, which would have in effect wiped out a considerable number of cases on the MDL. The ruling brings to...
On May 24, 2022, the New York Assembly and Senate passed a bill, S.6291, that would ban the sale of any apparel in the state of New York that contain intentionally added PFAS starting on December 31, 2023. The New York fashion PFAS legislation, which must be signed...
In response to the presiding Judge's request that the parties in the PFAS AFFF MDL choose the order in which the first three cases chosen for trial in the MDL will proceed, the parties submitted a letter to the Judge informing him that the case of Stuart (FL) v. 3M,...
John Gardella's recent PFAS article entitled "PFAS Consumer Fraud Lawsuit Just the Latest...and Only the Beginning" was published on our website and the National Law Review. The article was picked up and utilized by The Fashion Law's news site in the article "A...
On September 9, 2022, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted interlocutory review of an enormously significant PFAS class action lawsuit filed in Ohio - Hardwick v. 3M. We previously wrote about the details of the Ohio court's decision to grant class certification...
On August 26, 2022, a PFAS consumer fraud class action lawsuit was filed in New York against Proctor & Gamble over alleged PFAS content in the Oral B brand of floss. The lawsuit is but the latest in a growing line of PFAS lawsuits that allege that certain consumer...