Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 14 Mar 2023
After much anticipation in the environmental community, EPA today announced proposed enforceable drinking water standards for six PFAS compounds…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 28 Nov 2022
The EPA recently published the Contaminant Candidate List 5 (List 5). It is a list of contaminants that are not currently subject to proposed or…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 27 Sep 2022
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule to designate two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) — perfluorooctanoic acid…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 27 Dec 2019
On Dec. 20, President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2020. In addition to creating the Space Force, the legislation…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 15 Jul 2019
In the past few years a family of thousands of chemicals, known as PFAS, which have been used in various industries since the 1940s, have been…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 17 Aug 2012
On August 17, US EPA released for public review and comment its "Peer Review Plans" for risk assessments on the following seven "work plan chemicals" for 2012.
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 10 Aug 2012
During a ceremony on August 9 in Cincinnati, representatives from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana announced that they had signed-on to an innovative interstate water quality pollutant trading program designed to try to reduce levels of nutrients in the Ohio River Basin through the buying and selling of pollutant credits.
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 27 Jul 2012
On July 25, 2012, the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committe passed an amended version of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 (S. 847), sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D -N.J.).
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 12 Jun 2012
U.S. EPA has extended the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) regulations submission deadline from June 30, 2012 to August 13, 2012.
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 2 May 2012
On May 1, 2012, US EPA announced that it had finalized its third list of 'unregulated contaminants' for future monitoring by drinking water providers.