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PFAS Legislative Developments (September 2022)
September 2022 PFAS Legislative Developments September Legislation Tracking (Sept 1, 2022 – Sept 30, 2022)Current Trends in Legislation – September 2022 Military Installments and PFAs Monitoring Federal Level Key point addressed: Assist with identify reporting on PFAs...
Ethylene Oxide Litigation Sees Major Ruling Out of Georgia
We recently reported on the first Ethylene Oxide (EtO) verdict which resulted in a $363 million award to an Illinois plaintiff who alleged she developed cancer as the result of emissions from a medical sterilization facility in that state. Just a few days after the...
PFAS Health Advisories See Arguments In Court
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...
$54 Million PFAS Settlement By Downstream Business
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...
EPA Under Fire For Overdue Ethylene Oxide Regulations
As we noted in our last report, on September 19, 2022, a Cook County (Illinois) jury awarded $363 million to a plaintiff who alleged that she developed breast cancer as a result of ethylene oxide emissions from the Sterigenics Willowbrook plant. This was the first...
Is the European PFAS Litigation Wave Beginning?
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...
Ethylene Oxide Verdict First of Its Kind, and It’s Eye Opening!
Our prior reports discussed when an ethylene oxide case would go to verdict, and what the ensuing result would look like. We no longer need to speculate. On September 19, 2022, a Cook County (Illinois) jury awarded $363 million to a plaintiff who alleged that she...
MDL For PFAS AFFF Sees Long-Awaited Government Contractor Ruling
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...
New York Fashion PFAS Legislation Will Dramatically Impact Businesses
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...
PFAS AFFF MDL Moves Forward With Bellwether Trial Chosen
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 PFAS Thought Leadership Published In The Fashion Law
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...
Ryan Landis To Speak At Prop 65 Conference
On Monday, September 19, 2022, Attorney Ryan Landis will present at the Prop 65 Clearinghouse conference in San Francisco, California. His panel discussion, entitled "Res Judicata...Deja Vu, All Over Again", examines a wide variety of Prop 65 related issues, including...