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A half a millennium ago the Renaissance Physician Philosopher Parcelsus wrote "only the dose makes the poison."

The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CTDEEP) amended its Environmental Condition Assessment Form (ECAF)...

On April 22, 2026, Change Chemistry and the Sustainable Chemistry Catalyst at the University of Massachusetts Lowell published a report entitled Incentivizing Sustainable Chemicals: A Policy Framework for Innovation...

In Keyport, New Jersey, ongoing concerns about cancer cases have left many residents wondering who could potentially be held responsible if environmental contamination is involved.

This morning, Inside EPA reports on the challenges the regulated community faces because the Federal Government is considerably behind several states in the race to regulate any number of the ...

Most companies I work with who do business in California have little good to say...

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), acting under a congressional mandate, has finalized interim rules to regulate security at any facility possessing a threshold quantity of a long list of chemicals.

On August 4, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published a notice of determinations that modifies the list of taxable substances to include the following 21 substances: polyphenylene sulfide...

On February 6, 2025, the European Union (EU) Advocate General (EU AG) recommended that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overturn the 2022 decision of the General Court...

In June 2016, the SEC announced that it had made its second largest whistleblower award in its whistleblower program's five-year history.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's ("OSHA") Hazard Communications ("HazCom") Standard was the most frequently cited general industry standard in the past fiscal year.

On February 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA") announced that it plans to issue new guidance as part of its effort to protect workers...

His work is the subject of a recent feature film, “Dark Waters,” and the documentaries “The Devil We Know,” “Burned- Protecting the Protectors,” and “Revealed: How to Poison A Planet,” and is detailed in his book, “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-year Battle Against DuPont.” Bilott is a member of Taft’s Environmental, Litigation, and Product Liability and Personal Injury practices and is a board member

According to OEHHA, these new regulations would further the "right-to-know" purposes of the statute and provide more specificity for the content of safe harbor warnings for a variety of specific kinds of exposures.

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued emergency regulations on December 22, 2006 to restrict allowable concentrations of lead, mercury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium in eight categories of video display electronics devices.

In 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger established the California Green Chemistry Initiative (Initiative), a systematic and comprehensive approach to developing policy options for implementing a green chemistry program that unites scientists from California and around the world to evaluate the health effects of chemicals and create possible alternatives.

Research and Markets has released its report on Global Trends and Forecasts for Fracking Chemicals and Fluid Markets.

One key input for determining a facility's toxic release threat is the "Distance of Concern" that facilities report.