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EPA has been cleared by the White House Office of Management and Budget to list two of the hundreds of chemicals collectively known as PFAS as "hazardous substances" under the Federal Superfund statute.

The Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory ("Inventory") is a list of chemical substances manufactured (including imported) or processed in the United States.

On August 13, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the relaunch of EPA's Guidance Portal, "a streamlined website for accessing important guidance documents related to air quality, water protection, hazardous waste management, and more."

The United Kingdom's (UK) Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has begun a public consultation on a legislative proposal to reform the Great Britain (GB) Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation.

On December 31, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new law that imposes obligations on manufactures of consumer "electronic displays," upholstered furniture...

The Technology Alert List (TAL) was created by the federal government during the Cold War to help maintain technological superiority over the Warsaw Pact and was targeted at individuals from the Soviet Union and other communist countries. Revised in 1996 to broaden its focus and better reflect national security objectives, the TAL consists of two parts: 1) a Critical Fields List (CFL) that identifies major fields of technology transfer concern including those subject to export controls for non-p

Yes, you read that excerpt correctly. One in five municipalities required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to test for PFAS in their drinking water found them...

For many years, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been ubiquitous in American commerce and industry. That ubiquitous use, and the fact that PFAS chemicals do not break down in the environment...

Now that EPA has designated as "hazardous substances" at least two of the hundreds of "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS, does it make sense for the hundreds if not thousands...

Massachusetts was one of the first states in the union to set "protective" levels.

With apologies to Mr. Shakespeare, and respect to the American Water Works Association, PFOS and PFOA, only two of the hundreds of "forever chemicals" collectively known as PFAS...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced on September 29, 2025, that it determined that MON 95379 Lepidopteran-Protected Maize (corn)...

EPA has released its risk assessment for GenX, one of the hundreds of "forever chemicals" known collectively as PFAS that are ubiquitous in our environment owing to decades of use in everything from fire suppressants to pizza boxes.

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has proposed to significantly amend the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986

As reported in our May 30, 2025, blog item, on May 15, 2025, the Center for Environmental Accountability (CEA) filed a petition under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act...

Mark your calendars, the submission period for Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) is from June 1 – September 30, 2024 and will cover reporting years...

Last December, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added bisphenol S (BPS) to the Proposition 65 list of chemicals...