Groups Renew Fight Over Disclosure Of TSCA ‘Health’ Data In FOIA Suit
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Elizabeth Duan | February 15, 2024
Environmentalists are asking a court to force EPA to release data on the health effects of several PFAS that it has deemed “confidential business information” (CBI) under TSCA, further expanding a long-running legal fight over when material dealing with “health and safety studies” ...
EPA Proposes To List Nine PFAS As RCRA ‘Hazardous Constituents’
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Elizabeth Duan | February 1, 2024
EPA is proposing a rule that would list nine PFAS as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) “hazardous constituents,” moving to more than double the number of the substances it previously pledged to add to the RCRA list that will give regulators the authority to require cleanup ...
Environmentalists Hope To Revive Landmark PFAS Orders Despite Court Stay
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Elizabeth Duan | January 4, 2024
Two environmental groups are seeking to join the appellate suit over EPA’s novel orders for a plastics manufacturer to halt use of a fluorination technology that allegedly contaminates products with PFAS, aiming to bring the orders back into force after the agency agreed to a stay — ...
OMB Clears Proposed Rule Listing PFAS As RCRA ‘Hazardous Constituents’
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Elizabeth Duan | December 22, 2023
The White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has completed its review of an EPA proposed rule to list four PFAS as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) “hazardous constituents,” which once finalized would give regulators the authority to require cleanup actions for ...
EJ Group Vows To Sue EPA, Navy Over Hunters Point Superfund Cleanup
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Elizabeth Duan | December 21, 2023
A California environmental justice (EJ) group is threatening to sue EPA and the Navy over the troubled cleanup of radiological and other contamination at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (HPNS) site in San Francisco, alleging the agencies violated the Superfund law pertaining to ...