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...
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...
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...
17 Nov, 2022 Another case in which a non-governmental organization wants a court to tell EPA how to do its job By Jeff Porter Yesterday a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard from lawyers for the Public...
29 Jul, 2022 Lots of PFAS news, none of it good. By Jeff Porter A committee of the prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine this week recommended that the blood of perhaps...
05 Jul, 2022 Even in the 9th Circuit, merely conveying contaminated groundwater isn't "transportation" of a "solid waste" By Jeff Porter Just before the July 4th holiday, two Judges on a Ninth Circuit panel reversed their earlier conclusion that conveying contaminated...
18 Apr, 2022 No more biosolids in Maine? By Jeff Porter Bloomberg Environment reports that Maine Governor Janet Mills is about to sign legislation banning the land application of biosolids in...
24 Feb, 2022 Another "Maui" Citizen Suit in New York Continues to Meander Along in its Tenth Year By Jeff Porter A Magistrate Judge and EPA continue to strongly disagree about the application of the Safe Drinking Water Act to septic systems and...
13 Jan, 2022 Overturning the 9th Circuit Vacaville Decision Would Restrict Plaintiffs' Misuse of RCRA and That's a GOOD thing! By Jeff Porter The Natural Resources Defense Council has told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that overturning the "faithful application" of RCRA by...
06 Jan, 2022 Merely Manufacturing PFAS Isn't Enough (Yet) to Make You Responsible for Cleaning Them Up By Jeff Porter This morning we have a seventy five page decision by a Federal District Court Judge in New York dismissing a lawsuit by a water supplier...
04 Jan, 2022 When It Comes To PFAS, Perfect Can Be The Enemy Of Good By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that six North Carolina-based NGOs, represented by a prior EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel, think...
02 Nov, 2021 As the PFAS Panic Continues, EPA Tries to Keep Up with the States By Jeff Porter EPA has released its risk assessment for GenX, one of the hundreds of "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS that are ubiquitous...
27 Oct, 2021 A new layer to EPA's PFAS roadmap By Jeff Porter Yesterday EPA announced a new layer to EPA's PFAS roadmap unveiled only last week. Now four of the hundreds of chemicals collectively...
02 Jul, 2021 Following First Circuit Panel's decision, does EPA even matter anymore? By Jeff Porter The Conservation Law Foundation will continue its Clean Water Act and RCRA citizen suit against Exxon Mobil alleging violations of those...
25 May, 2021 Time Keeps on Slippin', Slippin', Slippin', Into the Future -- Another Pre Maui Case Goes On and On By Jeff Porter Almost eight years ago two NGOs sued the New York State Park Department alleging, among other things, that discharges from septic systems...