02 Jun, 2023 PFAS Manufacturers Continue to Pay Massive Claims But Do They Have Enough Money to Pay Them All? By Jeff Porter Bloomberg is reporting that 3M and the two companies responsible for the liability of what used to be DuPont have agreed to pay $100...
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...
29 Jun, 2022 Congress is fully funding EPA's implementation of its PFAS Road Map but insisting on knowing when EPA will get to its PFAS destinations By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven of Inside EPA reports that the House Appropriations Committee intends to give EPA every dollar it has requested to implement...
25 May, 2022 We shouldn't be surprised the Massachusetts AG is doing to PFAS manufacturers what a prior AG did to tobacco manufacturers but it's still notable! By Jeff Porter In the mid-1990s the Massachusetts Attorney General, Scott Harshbarger, made national news by suing tobacco manufacturers for, among...
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...
13 Dec, 2021 Another Maui Case in the Mountains By Jeff Porter Last week another NGO filed suit against another operator of a wastewater treatment facility, this one in the mountains of Montana,...
17 Nov, 2021 Another State Proposes a PFAS Limit While EPA Tries to Catch Up By Jeff Porter Bloomberg Environment reports the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will set a drinking water limit for two of the thousands of "forever...
13 Jul, 2021 Safe Drinking Water Act Regulation Proposed for 29 PFAS. Will Superfund Coverage be Far Behind? By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports this morning that EPA is ready to propose the regulation of a group of 29 PFAS under the Federal Safe Drinking Water...
18 May, 2021 When it comes to PFAS, it isn't a question of whether EPA will step in but when and how By Jeff Porter Inside EPA reports that EPA is moving quickly to set Maximum Contaminant Level Goals for two of the thousands of PFAS. That's no...