PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency moves toward finalizing its proposal to designate Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) – also known as “forever chemicals” – as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

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MGKF Law

OCTOBER 8, 2024

On September 27, 2024, in Short Creek Development, LLC v. 22-05021-CV-SW-WBG, 2024 WL 4326815 (W.D. 27, 2024), Magistrate Judge W. MFA Incorporated , No.

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MGKF Law

JULY 14, 2024

25, 2024), that arranger liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”) requires a potentially responsible party to have knowledge that the waste it discards is hazardous. Alban Tractor Company et al. , 23-1155 (4th Cir.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We had posted some months ago that it was hugely significant that this Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard was in Limbo because that assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 including for a real estate purchaser to avoid liability under CERCLA [the Superfund law]). Be assured this is a big deal.

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Acoel

MARCH 28, 2024

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Dennis H. Fifty years ago the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced a human health and environmental crisis when the insecticide Kepone was discovered in the blood of manufacturing workers and in the fish and sediment of the James River at Hopewell Virginia. Treacy Credit: Encyclopedia Virginia.

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MGKF Law

JUNE 5, 2024

On May 7, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denied Defendant ISP Environmental Service Inc.’s 2024 WL 2013949 (D.N.J. United States v. ISP Envt’l Servs.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Capaccio

MAY 21, 2024

In April 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a new regulation to limit the amount of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. The regulation targets six PFAS in particular: PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA, and PFBS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) noted that the draft scientific integrity policy from the Consumer Products Safety Commission not only contains that problematic prohibition, but does so in multiple places. PEER’s comment recommends that CPSC remove the provision.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

To address this problem, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a suite of important regulations. In April of 2024, the EPA introduced new Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for PFAS in drinking water, signaling a critical regulatory shift. These chemicals are routinely found in surface waters, groundwater, and soil.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) noted that the draft scientific integrity policy from the Consumer Products Safety Commission not only contains that problematic prohibition, but does so in multiple places. PEER’s comment recommends that CPSC remove the provision.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Shapiro’s FY 2024-25 budget request-- Thank you, Chairman Harris, Chairman Grove, and members of the House Appropriation Committee, for inviting us here today. I’m Jessica Shirley, the Interim Acting Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Our proposed budget also includes $1.1

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Against the backdrop of a global economy that has continued to grow, the explosive growth in sustainable industries marked a paradigm shift, with environmentally responsible practices proving to be not just a corporate responsibility but a lucrative business strategy.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

While the Alberta Energy Regulator has the ability, and responsibility, to hold companies that break the law to account, it has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to enforce its own laws when it comes to industry rulebreakers — leaving Albertans to bear the costs and clean up the mess. billion Q2 profits from 2024.

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Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

Carlston With the incoming Trump administration poised for an attack on federal environmental regulations, states are quickly emerging with actions on climate change. New York is the second state after Vermont to pass a state Climate Superfund law. The Climate Superfund Act, if fully realized, would supercharge those efforts.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

2:17-cv-00809-JCH-GBW, 2024 WL 4512434, the U.S. Last month, in City of Las Cruces and Dona Ana County v The Lofts of Alameda, LLC , Civil Action No.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A Brief History of Federal Superfund Legislation In 1980, Congress enacted The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), more commonly known as Superfund. 259, the Climate Superfund Act, marks a new era in the effort to hold the worlds largest polluters responsible for the mess they have made.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

As Americans gather to celebrate the harvest’s bounty, there are few revelations about our food supply more distressing than the 2024 news that sewage-derived fertilizer has contaminated millions of acres of U.S. cropland with toxic PFAS chemicals.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Effective July 13, the law banned local governments and state agencies from using class B firefighting foam containing intentionally added PFAS for training or testing purposes.[[N: In June and July 2021, Maine enacted multiple laws that regulate PFAS both in products and in the environment. The House bill ( H.R. 21-191 (S.B.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In addition, the infrastructure law provides $100 million for the Pollution Prevention Act grants to states for programs to promote businesses’ use of source reduction techniques. In October 2021, EPA issued a proposed rule that would further extend the compliance date to October 31, 2024.[[N: N:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In his Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis signed on January 20, President Biden identified this rule as one EPA must review and, "as appropriate and consistent with applicable law," consider proposing its suspension, revision, or rescission.[[N: million each year.

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