Legal Resources
Restaurant Greenwashing: Diners Beware or Industry Beware?
In June 2021, a class action lawsuit was filed in California in which restaurant greenwashing was alleged due to sustainability statements made on Red Lobster's menus. Now, Red Lobster has filed pleadings with the court seeking to have the case dismissed, arguing that...
New York PFAS Products Bill Has Broad Implications
In August 2021, we wrote about a first-of-its-kind law introduced in Maine that banned intentionally added PFAS from any products sold in the state of Maine. Now, a New York PFAS products bill aims to mimic the Maine law and implement a ban on intentionally added PFAS...
John Gardella To Speak On Environmental Justice Webinar
Join CMBG3 Law's John Gardella on Thursday, February 24th, 2022 at 2:00 PM EST for the webinar The Environmental Justice Movement: Turning Concepts into Actions, hosted by the Antea Group. Low-income, minority, tribal, and indigenous communities are more likely to be...
PFAS In Consumer Products: False Positives Mean Compliance Wrinkle
A study published in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry on January 11, 2022 detailed how current methods of testing for certain volatile PFAS may be resulting in abnormally high false positives. The article, Mass-Labeled Flourotelomer Alcohol...
PFAS Risk Assessment For PFHxA By EPA – Impact On Business
On February 2, 2022, the EPA released its draft Toxicological Review of PFHxA and Related Salts, the latest risk assessment put forth by the EPA for certain types of PFAS. The PFAS risk assessment related to PFHxA is noteworthy because the Reference Dose (RfD)...
John Gardella’s ESG Thought Leadership Published In The Fashion Law
John Gardella's recent ESG fashion article entitled "Greenwashing and Fashion Industry: UK's Next Target" 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 "Greenwashing...
ESG, PFAS and Emerging Chemicals: FTC Taking Aim?
Looking ahead to later in 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to review and update its "Green Guides", which "...set forth the Federal Trade Commission's current views about environmental claims. The guides help marketers [and companies] avoid making...
PFAS TRI Reporting Expanded By EPA To 179 PFAS
On January 24, 2022, the EPA continued to expand the number of PFAS subject to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) with the addition of four PFAS to the TRI. PFAS TRI reporting is an issue that has recently seen significant attention by environmentalists who claim that...
John Gardella’s ESG Thought Leadership Published In Pharma Intelligence
John Gardella recently wrote an article entitled "Cosmetics and PFAS: Industry Lawsuits a Lesson For ESG", which was published on our website and the National Law Review. The article was picked up and utilized by writer Ryan Nelson of Informa's Pharma Intelligence in...
ESG and Fashion: New York Takes Aim At the Industry
ESG and fashion are certainly en vogue in 2022, at least with regulators and legislators. Yesterday, we wrote about the United Kingdom's intent to target the fashion industry in 2022 over alleged greenwashing of consumers for apparel and footwear. Marketing buzzwords...
Greenwashing and Fashion Industry: UK’s Next Target
As the cosmetics industry bore the brunt of a pair of significant greenwashing lawsuits in the United States at the end of 2021, it is now the fashion industry that is the target of regulatory oversight action in the United Kingdom to start 2022. As the Securities and...
John Gardella Interviewed By Chemical Watch On PFAS Issues
Attorney John Gardella was recently interviewed by Julia John, reporter for Chemical Watch, for her article regarding recent lawsuits against cosmetic industry companies for alleged "greenwashing" of consumers when certain of the companies' products contained PFAS....