The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the final risk evaluation for carbon tetrachloride on November 4, 2020. 85 Fed. Reg. 70147. EPA states that it reviewed 15 conditions of use, “all of which are associated with industrial and commercial work and primarily involve the manufacturing of other chemicals.” EPA found unreasonable risks to […]
November 2, 2020 Thomas M. Duncan MGKF Litigation Blog On October 22, 2020, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court rejected a facial constitutional challenge to two statutory enactments that directed over $110 million generated from oil and gas leases on state lands to pay for the general government operations of the Pennsylvania […]
Oct 30, 2020
TSCA Section 21 Petition Seeks Section 4 Test Rule for 54 PFAS – Update from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
On October 14, 2020, a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGO) petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to request that EPA require health and environmental effects testing on 54 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The petition seeks issuance of a rule or […]
October 26, 2020 Maria C. Salvemini MGKF Litigation Blog On August 19, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued what it hoped was “the third, and should be the last, opinion in these environmental pollution cases arising from World War II and the Korean […]
On October 22, 2020, Andrew Wheeler, EPA Administrator, signed the final rule adopting the “project emissions accounting” approach to Step1 of the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and major nonattainment area new source review (NNSR) programs. The final rule provides that both increases and decreases resulting from a proposed project […]