COVID-19 UPDATE April 20, 2020 Bruce S. Katcher MGKF NewsFlash On March 26, 2020, EPA issued a memorandum setting forth its temporary policy regarding the exercise of EPA enforcement discretion during the COVID-19 public health emergency (EPA Temporary Enforcement Policy, which we reviewed in our April 2 Special Alert, followed several […]
Acta Group Launches CDR Cross-Check™ To Assist Companies In Identifying Chemical Data Reporting Requirements: The Acta Group (Acta®) announced on April 1, 2020, the launch of CDR Cross-Check™, an ingenious yet simple tool developed and offered by Acta to assist companies in preparing for the 2020 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) […]
COVID-19 UPDATE April 17, 2020 Bruce S. Katcher and Austin W. Manning MGKF Special Alert On April 9 and 13, 2020, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) invoked its authority under Executive Order No. 103 (E.O. 103) to modify a number of the State’s rules regulating waste including the Regulated Medical […]
New amendments effective April 1st under California’s Proposition 65 “Clear and Reasonable Warning” regulations (Prop 65) clarify how entities in the supply chain can satisfy their warning obligations when the ultimate retailer is uncertain. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) now will require that the manufacturer, producer, packager, importer, […]
April 17, 2020 Shoshana (Suzanne Ilene) Schiller and Zachary J. Koslap MGKF Litigation Blog It has been more than a decade since the United States Supreme Court decided Burlington Northern & S.F. R. Co. v. United States, 129 S. Ct. 1870 (2009), holding that liability under Section 107(a) of CERCLA is […]