26 Jul, 2024 EPA's exclamation that PFAS are unsafe in minute concentrations is turning out to have serious ramifications for many, including EPA. By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside PFAS Policy reports that Maine farmers have joined litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency for not...
19 Apr, 2024 EPA has now listed two PFAS as Hazardous Substances under CERCLA. Hold onto your hats. By Jeff Porter Less than ten days after setting drinking water standards for six of the hundreds of chemicals known collectively as PFAS, EPA has now...
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...
01 Mar, 2024 The DoD has played a card that only it has in the AFFF litigation but it won't get it out of PFAS purgatory By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven, of Inside PFAS Policy, has an excellent report on the Defense Department's motion to dismiss claims for injunctive relief...
09 Feb, 2024 The PFAS Liability Abyss By Jeff Porter Some of you may be old enough to remember the movie Wall Street and, if you are, you might remember that just before Bud is taken into...
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...
10 Oct, 2023 Sunshine may be among the best disinfectants but these PFAS defendants are fighting to keep their settlement with Rome, Georgia confidential. Why? By Jeff Porter Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously exclaimed sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants. Of course the Atlanta...
29 Aug, 2023 I'm not sold on EPA's explanation for why it says "if" it designates PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances rather than "when" By Jeff Porter One of the two things in EPA's National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative for PFAS that caught my eye also caught the eye of Suzanne...
24 Aug, 2023 PFAS Rulings in South Carolina & Michigan shine a light on the fact we have no idea what removing PFAS from our environment is going to cost By Jeff Porter This week Judge Gergel tentatively approved the $1.2 billion settlement between DuPont (and related companies) and water suppliers now...
18 Aug, 2023 Two things about EPA's National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative for PFAS that caught my eye. By Jeff Porter After less than a month on the job EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) Chief David Uhlmann this week released a...
27 Jul, 2023 3M tried to resolve its PFAS liability to water suppliers for $12.5 BILLION and almost 1/2 the States (including MA) are objecting. What's next? By Jeff Porter In May I wrote about a manufacturer of Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) excused from the PFAS Multi-District Litigation in South Carolina...
06 Jul, 2023 There are many headlines today that "nearly half" of our drinking water contains PFAS, but no mentions of Paracelsus, and here's why that matters. By Jeff Porter Everyone from Bloomberg to CNN to the Boston Globe is reporting today on US Geologic Survey research concluding that "nearly half" (45...