Bloomberg Law | EPA Delaying Some Superfund Work to Limit Coronavirus Spread

On May 18, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added five PFAS to a list of risk-based values for regional screening and removal management levels. This article discusses how the EPA’s new PFAS listings should alert businesses and regulated industries that the agency will aggressively address the “forever chemical” issue nationwide.

Whatever the results of this presidential election, or any presidential transition, most government workers will continue to do the same work in the same way. In this article, Kevin Minoli draws upon his 18 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and takes a look at the COVID-19-related work of the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs as an example of an agency office that will continue to deliver results regardless of who wins on Nov. 3, 2020.

Elise Paeffgen comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ongoing need to focus on disinfectant regulations due to COVID-19.

Doug Arnold comments on next steps by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for implementing recommendations from the agency’s Superfund task force.

On June 10, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari to review a decision by the Montana Supreme Court allowing common-law “restoration” claims for environmental cleanup at sites already subject to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup orders. The case, which includes issues of federalism and jurisdiction, could implicate the EPA’s authority in selecting site remedies and the statutory scheme designed to prevent inconsistent remedial obligations.