Attorney John Gardella was recently interviewed by Tripp Baltz, reporter for Bloomberg Law, for his article regarding recent state-level PFAS soil remediation standards, the impacts of these standards on corporate liability, and the possibility of federal soil...
Three recent PFAS issues have directly impacted 3M, one of the historic manufacturers of certain PFAS chemicals, both domestically and internationally. In the United States, the PFAS updates for 3M include two settlements to end litigation regarding 3M's alleged...
Attorney John Gardella was recently interviewed by Pat Rizzuto, reporter for Bloomberg Law, for her article regarding changes that appear to be coming to the Restatement (Third) of Torts with respect to explicit support for medical monitoring lawsuits, even in the...
Earlier today, the EPA announced that it will begin work to add four types of PFAS to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's (RCRA) Hazardous Constituent List. Once the EPA completes the process to add certain PFAS to the RCRA list, those PFAS would...
Earlier today, the EPA released its final human health toxicity assessment for GenX chemicals, part of the family of PFAS that have received substantial attention in the media in recent years. The GenX PFAS toxicity assessment is one of the key goals of the EPA's PFAS...
The Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") movement has existed for over 10 years, but has taken on exponentially greater importance in the corporate, investment and insurance worlds in the last two to three years. With the Biden-Harris administration taking...
Please join John Gardella on October 27, 2021 at the Perrin Environmental Litigation and Coverage conference, which will take place in person at the Sheraton Times Square in New York City. John’s speaking engagement is on the topic of PFAS and he joins other thought...
On Monday, the EPA rolled out what it dubbed a "sweeping proposal" for its approach to tackling PFAS issues. The EPA PFAS plan is a broad scale proposal to tackle PFAS issues on many levels, from testing requirements placed on industry, drinking water contamination...
EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited New Hampshire earlier this week, accompanied by state representatives, to witness firsthand the efforts of the Merrimack Valley region to resolve PFAS water contamination issues. During his visit, Administrator Regan gave an...
On September 29, 2021, the EPA released its validated methodology for detection of 28 PFAS compounds in "oily matrices, such as pesticide products formulated in oil, petroleum distillates, or mineral oils." In the announcement for the EPA PFAS testing method, the EPA...