05 Mar, 2024 My Mom would say that, when it comes to PFAS, the Judicial Panel on Multi District Litigation's eyes were bigger than its stomach! By Jeff Porter A little over five years ago, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation gave Federal Judge Richard Gergel of South Carolina the...
06 Feb, 2024 EPA's execution of its PFAS road map proves the wheels of justice aren't the only ones that turn slowly. By Jeff Porter While I was on vacation last week, EPA proposed to identify as “hazardous constituents” nine of the “forever chemicals" known...
11 Jan, 2024 Another PFAS Clean Water Act Citizen Suit and there may be thousands more of these fish in the barrel. By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside PFAS Policy is reporting on another PFAS citizen suit under the Federal Clean Water Act. This one, by Tennessee...
19 Dec, 2023 The monumental PFAS settlements with water suppliers aren't out of the woods but give the Judge, Class Counsel, and Defense Counsel an "A+" for effort By Jeff Porter Many of the nation's public water suppliers and certain manufacturers of PFAS used in fire fighting foam are one step closer to massive...
13 Nov, 2023 Nature may abhor a vacuum but North Carolina has learned the same isn't true of Europeans with PFAS they don't want. By Jeff Porter Since EPA published its PFAS road map just a little more than two years ago, I've often commended EPA for its ambitious plan to regulate...
01 Nov, 2023 This is NOT a drill! EPA is going to require billions of dollars of PFAS remediation in many places, including at already "closed" Brownfield sites. By Jeff Porter Yesterday, I spoke with Sarah Mattalian, an Inside EPA reporter writing a story about the suggestion by an EPA official that EPA might...
24 May, 2021 The Forever Chemicals are also Everywhere Chemicals By Jeff Porter Yes, you read that excerpt correctly. One in five municipalities required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to test for PFAS in their...