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...
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...
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...
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...
25 Aug, 2023 The Federal Government says the 6th Circuit and 1st Circuit now have different Superfund rules but the Supreme Court shouldn't do anything about that! By Jeff Porter Anyone who has been practicing environmental law for more than a few years has had a case requiring a dive into the black hole that is...
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...
29 Jun, 2023 If a thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of warning then what happened this week in NJ is a whopper of a PFAS thorn By Jeff Porter James Russell Lowell wrote that one thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. This week's nearly 400 million dollar...
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...
17 May, 2023 Surprising no one, those pursued to pay for PFAS contamination are buckling under the weight of those claims. What's next? By Jeff Porter Hundreds and hundreds of claims for personal injury and property damage associated with PFAS contamination have been accumulating in the...
14 Mar, 2023 EPA has concluded that PFAS are an "urgent public health and environmental issue" but everyone isn't on the same page about what happens next. By Jeff Porter EPA continues to make measurable progress toward the milestones it established in its 2021 PFAS road map. It has arranged for an...
28 Feb, 2023 Does the Supreme Court have the stomach to tackle the super fun Superfund statute of limitations again? By Jeff Porter This week our nation's highest court will decide whether to review the 6th Circuit's conclusion that a declaratory judgment of liability...