PFAS and Emerging Contaminants

On March 12, 2024, the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) approved the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (PADEP) proposal to amend the Land Recycling and Remediation Standards Act regulations under Chapter 250 of the Pennsylvania Code.  Included in the rulemaking are cleanup standards for select new Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Gen-X (Hexafluoropropylene Oxide

Last month, Governor Murphy signed a bill that affects the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) in firefighting foam. The law, approved as P.L.2023, c.243 (Bill A4125 or S2712), accomplishes a few things: it (1) largely prohibits PFAS-containing firefighting foam, (2) asks the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) to form a collection

As we’ve posted here before, by statutory enactment, Maine intends to ban the sale, marketing, and distribution of products or product components containing intentionally added PFAS, effective January 1, 2030.  38 M.R.S. § 1614. This follows Maine’s notification requirements for products containing intentionally added PFAS, which is effective January 1, 2025. The

Soon after the Biden Administration took office, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a Strategic Roadmap highlighting the many ways it planned to “research, restrict, and remediate” per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) during the Administration’s first term.  Among the most significant objectives of the “restrict” and “remediate” portions of the Roadmap were plans to

A recent DuPont settlement in Ohio triggers additional payments to Delaware under a 2021 agreement.  In June 2021, (i) E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, (ii) Corteva, Inc., (iii) The Chemours Company, and (iv) DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (collectively, “DuPont”) entered into a broad settlement agreement resolving Natural Resource Damage claims with the

In September, NJDEP’s Contaminated Site Remediation and Redevelopment program (CSRR) issued new guidance (the Administrative Guidance for Green, Sustainable, and Resilient Remediation) encouraging the use of green and sustainable remediation (GSR) and a focus on resiliency during the remediation of contaminated sites under state statutes and rules. 

As defined in NJDEP’s guidance document, GSR