Environmental Law News and Insights

n the latest development in the federal government's efforts to develop a framework for addressing groundwater contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and/or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received 372 comments to its draft Interim Recommendations for Addressing Groundwater Contaminated with PFOA and PFOS, which was proposed on...

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Southern District of Texas Remands Obama WOTUS Rule The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas decided on May 28, 2019, that the Obama-era Clean Water Rule defining "waters of the United States" (WOTUS Rule), see 80 Fed. Reg. 37,054 (June 29, 2015), must be remanded to the...

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Late last month, New Hampshire filed two law suits seeking to recover a variety of costs and damages it alleges have resulted from contamination caused by releases of PFAS. It's a wide ranging suit; New Hampshire asserted claims for negligence, defective design, failure to warn, trespass, and damage to public...

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