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• Maine Begins PFAS Essential Use ID Process to Permit Sales

  Policy

  8 Jan 2024

  Companies and industrial sectors that claim PFAS are essential for the goods they produce have until March 1 to notify a Maine agency as the first step to help continue selling those products in the state.

• [Report] Rewind And (P)FASt Forward: Current Developments In PFAS Regulation

  Policy

  8 Jan 2024

  This report summarizes these and other major PFAS regulatory developments from 2023 and forecasts what 2024 may have in store.

• Navigating the changing landscape of PFAS regulations

  News

  8 Jan 2024 | The Insurer

  Navigating the complexities of these regulations requires a proactive approach, including internal risk assessments, documentation, strategic planning, and risk transfer where possible.

• Overview of PFAS Regulations in the United States and What Japanese Companies and Their U.S. Subsidiaries Need to Know

  Policy

  2 Jan 2024

  This article provides an overview of PFAS regulation in the United States, emphasizing its relevance to various Japanese businesses, including those in specialty chemicals, manufacturing, oil and gas, and trading, due to the widespread use of PFAS in commercial products, potential liability risks, and recent multi-billion dollar settlements in PFAS contamination lawsuits.

• PFAS and WHO: Major Conference This Week Will Impact Litigation

  Policy

  10 Nov 2023

  This week, the International Agency For Research On Cancer is holding a week-long conference in Lyon, France to discuss the carcinogenicity of PFOA and PFAS.

• New Report: PFAS Industry Spent More Than $110 Million on Lobbying Since 2019

  News

  7 Nov 2023 | Food & Water Watch

  Weak regulations in the U.S. have allowed multi-billion dollar chemical corporations to conceal the dangers of toxic compounds called PFAS.

• Pappas to IRS: PFAS rebates should be nontaxable based on existing guidance

  Policy

  3 Nov 2023

  Last spring, Congressman Chris Pappas filed legislation to change the Internal Revenue Service’s tax code in regard to state-issued PFAS remediation rebates. Now he’s working another avenue: asking the IRS to fix the issue itself.

• EPA tightens reporting requirements for ‘forever chemical’ releases, closing controversial loophole

  News

  25 Oct 2023 | The Hill

  The EPA has finalized a rule that will tighten the reporting requirements for facilities that use or release certain types of toxic ‘forever chemicals.’

• The Perfect is Always the Enemy of the Good - TSCA’s Information Grab and the Expansive Ten-Year “Look Back” PFAS Reporting Requirement

  Policy

  23 Oct 2023

  The TSCA PFAS Reporting Rule continues in its broad form, making only slight modifications around the edges; none of which will provide material relief to the majority of entities subject to the rule.

• EPA Finalizes Rule to Require Enhanced PFAS Reporting to the Toxics Release Inventory

  Policy

  20 Oct 2023

  The U.S. EPA finalized a rule that improves reporting on PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory by eliminating an exemption that allowed facilities to avoid reporting information on PFAS when those chemicals were used in small concentrations.

• TSCA Section 8(a)(7) Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

  Policy

  11 Oct 2023

  In accordance with obligations under TSCA, as amended by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, EPA is requiring any person that manufactures (including import) or has manufactured (including imported) PFAS or PFAS-containing articles in any year since January 1, 2011, to electronically report information regarding PFAS uses, production volumes, disposal, exposures, and hazards.

• [Webinar] Key takeaways from the PFAS public consultation

  Policy

  6 Oct 2023

  Watch a webinar to get the ins and outs of this record-breaking public consultation, find out what we chose to focus on in our reply and — last but not least — get valuable insights about the restriction proposal from a legal perspective.

• Rule Passed to Require Reporting of PFAS

  Policy

  6 Oct 2023

  The U.S. EPA finalized a rule that will provide EPA, its partners, and the public with the largest-ever dataset of PFAS manufactured and used in the United States. 

• [Public Comment] ECHA PFAS Restriction Proposal

  Events

  25 Sep 2023

  ECHA is requesting public comments on proposed PFAS restrictions.

• How Should We Interpret the New Water Quality Regulations for Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances?

  Science

  23 Aug 2023 | ACS ES&T Water

  Proposed PFAS regulations should be coherent to minimize exposure and risks and remediation approaches should be balanced to reduce overall exposure across the various sources of exposure.