April 2025 PFAS Legislative Developments April Legislation Tracking (April 1 – April 30)Current Trends in Legislation – April 2025Federal Legislature Two new bills were introduced, one of which seeks to prioritize the procurement of PFAS-free materials. Federal...
Under the Biden Administration, the federal government published a detailed PFAS Strategic Roadmap document that enumerated specific action items that the EPA would address during Biden's presidency. Under the Trump administration, uncertainty has been the theme of...
John Gardella was interviewed by reporter Marina Schauffler of the Maine Morning Star for an article on Maine's efforts to tackle PFAS issues related to the use of AFFF by fire departments throughout the state. Attorney Gardella's insights related to the legal...
Businesses, large and small, can find themselves overwhelmed by litigation quickly, if and when they find themselves in the crosshairs of a developing litigation. For years, the best example of these crosshairs was those focused mainly on asbestos and those entities...
March 2025 PFAS Legislative Developments March Legislation Tracking (March 1 – March 31)Current Trends in Legislation – March 2025Federal Legislature One new bill was introduced. State Legislature Sixty six bills were introduced across fifteen states. Topics include:...
February 2025 PFAS Legislative Developments February Legislation Tracking (February 1 – February 28)Current Trends in Legislation – February 2025Federal Legislature One new bill was introduced. State Legislature 85 bills were introduced across 23 states. Topics...
John Gardella will speak on March 11, 2025 at PLI's virtual Manufacturing and Consumer Products Law Conference. His sessions will address why PFAS are 2025's greatest business risk and disruptor for the manufacturing and consumer products sectors. For more...
We have written numerous times over the past several years regarding the risks posed to current and historical corporate users of PFAS (whether knowingly or unknowingly), even as the stagelight focused most brightly for some time on risks from federal regulatory...
John Gardella is an invited speaker at the upcoming Ohio Groundwater Conference (virtual), which will take place on February 25, 2025. The conference will host invited experts to discuss groundwater, surface water, and hydrology issues relevant in today's landscape....
Directly on the heels of our article this week regarding the latest PFAS consumer fraud lawsuit (this time, against Samsung for its smart watches), Apple finds itself in a similar lawsuit over its smartwatches. The number of product types targeted for these lawsuits...