September 10, 2021 Zachary J. Koslap MGKF Litigation Blog On September 3, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, vacated the lower court’s determination that liability for remediating the environmental harm associated with a groundwater plume was divisible under Section 107 of CERCLA. In Von Duprin LLC v. Major […]
September 8, 2021 How Promoting Prescribed Burns May Improve Water Quality in the Long Term The California Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 332, which would increase legal protections for professionals responsible for setting prescribed burns – or “the planned application and confinement of fire” to a specified area for the […]
Sep 9, 2021
Regulatory Considerations In Response to Extreme Weather Events – Update from Manko Gold Katcher Fox
September 3, 2021 Bruce S. Katcher and Michael Dillon MGKF Special Alert Hurricane Ida and its remnants have caused widespread impacts across much of the Eastern United States. New Jersey and Pennsylvania in particular have seen unprecedented weather, including flooding, high winds, and tornados, all of which have caused major […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on September 3, 2021, that it intends to initiate a new rulemaking and anticipates proposing new rules for five persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals that are the subject of final risk management rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Additionally, and importantly, […]
Sep 9, 2021
DIDP and DINP: EPA Publishes Final Risk Evaluation Scope Documents – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
On August 31, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of the final scope documents for the manufacturer-requested risk evaluations (MRRE) of di-isodecyl phthalate (DIDP) and diisononyl phthalate (DINP). 86 Fed. Reg. 48695; 86 Fed. Reg. 48693. The scope documents include the conditions of use, hazards, exposures, and the potentially exposed or susceptible […]