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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced on August 14, 2025, a WatchBlog item entitled "EPA's New Chemicals Program Could Improve Safety If Better Managed" that examines GAO's January 2025 report on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) New Chemicals Program (NCP).

In what appears to be a new pathway for PFAS litigation, California plaintiffs recently filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of BIC razors stemming from disclosures the company made under Maine's PFAS law...

Massachusetts has officially joined the growing coalition of states—including Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois—who have filed civil suit against the manufacturers...

The New York state legislature has passed a bill (S.1322/A.994) to modify previous legislation that largely bans per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS") in clothing and apparel by 2025...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published the Developments in Delegations on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Advanced Materials between July 2023.

Researchers at Harvard University have apparently confirmed what many already knew -- the "forever chemicals" known as PFAS are measurable in the groundwater used as drinking water on Cape Cod and many...

"Dark Waters" — the film based on Taft partner Rob Bilott and his role in the DuPont chemical pollution litigation in West Virginia, was the topic in the new podcast Dark History which...

Tennessee's new "Sound Science in Regulations Act" sets a precedent for evidence-based chemical regulation, particularly regarding PFAS...

Everyone can agree that environmental assessments should be based on the best science.

A decade after the Lautenberg Amendments transformed chemical safety regulation, experts convene to examine the ongoing debate over EPA's new chemical review process under TSCA Section 5. The discussion addresses whether current implementation adequately protects public health while fostering innovation, and explores persistent challenges in evaluating reasonably foreseen conditions of use and the effectiveness of significant new use rules.

In much anticipated news for followers of PFAS, or so-called "forever chemicals," USEPA announced today final, enforceable drinking water standards (MCLs) for six PFAS...

The title is one of the two big takeaways from the article.

Affirming a broad claim construction for claims directed to a nucleic acid molecule, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a rejection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that the claims were anticipated by earlier publications, which disclosed an uncharacterized form of the nucleic acid.

In March 2023, the FDA issued a final guidance, titled "Q13 Continuous Manufacturing of Drug Substances and Drug Products" that describes scientific and regulatory considerations for the development...

Two months ago, I posted about states banning certain food additives and how doing so can fracture the efforts to create uniformity in the United States food safety system.

At its Petersburg, New York plant, Tonoga, Inc. made products and materials coated with polytetrafluoroethylene, better known by its trade name, Teflon. Before 2013, when making Teflon...

On March 5, 2025, Representatives Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Stephanie Bice (R-OK) and Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Alex Padilla (D-CA), all commissioners on the National Security Commission...