This week’s post is authored by Emilee Mooney Scott and is also available on Robinson+Cole’s Environmental Law + blog. Thank you to Emilee for contributing. Emilee is a partner in the firm’s Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, focusing her practice on a variety of environmental compliance and transactional matters, including emerging contaminants.
PFAS Update: EPA Progress Under PFAS Action Plan
By Megan Baroni on
Posted in Environment
Earlier this year, we wrote about EPA’s PFAS Action Plan, the agency’s blueprint for addressing contamination and protecting public health from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The PFAS Action Plan, released in February 2019, details a number of actions EPA plans to take with regard to PFAS, including time frames for implementation. EPA has…
PFAS Update: EPA Progress Under PFAS Action Plan
By Megan Baroni on
Posted in Environment
Earlier this year, we wrote about EPA’s PFAS Action Plan, the agency’s blueprint for addressing contamination and protecting public health from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The PFAS Action Plan, released in February 2019, details a number of actions EPA plans to take with regard to PFAS, including time frames for implementation. EPA has…
Are you a “polluter”? 2012 Toxic Release Data Available; Decreases in Releases
By Robinson+Cole's Manufacturing Industry Group on
Many manufacturers are subject to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory or TRI reporting. If you have more than 10 employees, and manufacture, process or otherwise use more than 10,000 pounds of a “toxic chemical,” chances are you are required to file each July either a Form R, listing those “toxic chemicals”…