Amy Edwards

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Thomas Declerck |Amy Edwards |Eve Giles

Our analysis of financial crime and investigations developments over the past 12 months provides a revealing picture of an increasingly challenging regulatory and enforcement landscape facing businesses around the world. The A&O Shearman white-collar defense and investigations practice has compiled a list of ten key challenges for in-house investigations teams and white-collar crime lawyers in 2025.

Oct 25, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Molly Broughton |Meaghan Colligan |Amy Edwards

Highlights The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add 16 new, individually listed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and 15 PFAS categories to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list as "chemicals of special concern." Industries that may be impacted by the rule are, generally, mining, utility, manufacturing, wholesalers of nondurable goods, wholesale electronic markets and agent brokers, publishing and hazardous waste, as well as federal facilities.

Oct 18, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Meaghan Colligan |Amy Edwards |Rich Gold

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws represent a pivotal shift in environmental and sustainability compliance, placing the onus of end-of-life product management on the parties that produce the product rather than on the municipalities that have to handle the discarded packaging materials.

Sep 20, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Molly Broughton |Meaghan Colligan |Amy Edwards

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Sept. 6, 2024, announced the availability of $6.5 billion in Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) funding and $1 billion in State Infrastructure Financing Authority (SWIFIA) funding.

Sep 11, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Meaghan Colligan |Amy Edwards |Dianne Phillips

While product importers were spending the summer poring over the Instructions for Reporting PFAS Under TSCA Section 8(a)(7) (May 2024), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was working on a Direct Final Rule and Proposed Rule to extend the deadline for a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) one-time reporting rule that was finalized on Oct. 11, 2023, under Section 8(a)(7) of TSCA (15 U.S.C. §2607(a)(7)).