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2 weeks ago | 
mondaq.com | Joseph Green |Zachary Lee
On April 21, 2025, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency("MPCA" or "the Agency") released proposed rules that if finalized would helpeffectuate the Gopher State's ban on per- and polyfluoroalkylsubstances ("PFAS") in numerous consumer products.
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3 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Joseph Green |Zachary Lee
On April 21, 2025, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (“MPCA” or “the Agency”) released proposed rules that if finalized would help effectuate the Gopher State’s ban on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) in numerous consumer products.
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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Wayne D'Angelo |Andrew Homer |Zachary Lee
On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling thatprohibits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"or "the Agency") from setting qualitative limits based onthe condition of the "receiving waters" that the permitauthorizes discharge into, rather than specific limits on thepermittee's discharge itself.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Wayne D'Angelo |Andrew Homer |Zachary Lee
On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that prohibits the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “the Agency”) from setting qualitative limits based on the condition of the “receiving waters” that the permit authorizes discharge into, rather than specific limits on the permittee’s discharge itself.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Joseph Green |Zachary Lee
While several states, including Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Maine, have moved to ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in cookware products, no state has yet established specific limits for PFAS levels in food. This could change soon, as Maine lawmakers—who enacted one of the first state-level PFAS prohibitions in consumer products in 2021—have introduced a bill that, if passed, would make Maine the first state to establish PFAS limits in food.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Joseph Green |Zachary Lee
With 2025 officially underway, companies should be mindful of two key deadlines for submitting mandatory per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) information to North American regulators. Most urgently, this coming January 29 is the deadline for manufacturers and importers to file reports or seek an extension under a Canadian PFAS reporting program announced in July 2024.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Joseph Green |Zachary Lee |John Quaglino
The New Year rings in with a likely wave of new enforcement actions under California’s Proposition 65 targeting Bisphenol-S (BPS), a popular substitute chemical for Bisphenol-A (BPA) which itself has been targeted by regulators and Prop 65 enforcers for the last decade. BPS initially was listed under Prop 65 on December 29, 2023, after being identified by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) as a female reproductive toxicant.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Zachary Lee
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke |Jeffrey Hunter |Zachary Lee
As discussed in our previous client advisory, earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama entered a final declaratory judgment concluding that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA” or the “Act”) exceeds Constitutional limits on Congressional power.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | William Jackson |Zachary Lee
For the first time in nearly 35 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) has proposed to comprehensively revise regulations governing how Tribes and States assume responsibility over administration of the Clean Water Act's (CWA's) Section 404 permitting program for discharges of dredged and fill material into waters of the United States (WOTUS).1 This advisory will briefly explain the background of EPA's Section 404 Program before discussing the proposed...
