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    California Continues On The PFAS Regulatory Vanguard By Banning PFAS In Cosmetics

    On October 1, 2020, California passed a law identified as the Toxic Free Cosmetics Act. The Act will prohibit, beginning on January 1, 2025, the manufacturing or selling of any cosmetic product...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
    Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
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    California Lists BPS On Prop 65

    On Dec. 29, the California Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) formally added bisphenol S (BPS) as a reproductive toxicant under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly known as Prop 65.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Exponent
    Exponent
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Signs Protecting Chicagoans’ Clean Water, Clean Air, Energy Affordability, And Quality Of Life Executive Order

Chicago has become the latest city to push back against new data center development. On August 11, 2026, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed Executive Order 2026-5, titled “Protecting Chicagoans’ Clean Water, Clean Air, Energy Affordability, and Quality of Life.” The Order establishes an enhanced regulatory framework for data center development in Chicago. In the Order, the Mayor calls on the City Council to enact a temporary moratorium on new data center construction and material expansions of existing facilities.
United StatesEnvironment
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP
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    Clean Water Act Permit Required For "Functional Equivalent" Of Direct Discharge, Supreme Court Says

    The Clean Water Act sometimes requires a permit for the indirect discharge of pollutants from a point source to navigable waters, but only when the discharge is the "functional equivalent" of a direct discharge, the Supreme Court held on April 23.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Sheppard
    Sheppard
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    Criticizing WOTUS Is Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel

    On Wednesday, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers announced that they plan to revise the definition of "Waters of the United States". Simultaneously, DOJ moved to remand the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, ...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Foley Hoag LLP
    Foley Hoag LLP
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    Draft EIR Released For Delta Conveyance Project

    A key priority of the Newsom Administration – the Delta Conveyance Project – has officially entered its next chapter. On July 22, the Department of Water Resources...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Nossaman LLP
    Nossaman LLP
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    Environmental Protection Agency And Army Corps Finalize Clean Water Rule

    Long controversial in previous iterations, the rule is certain to be challenged in several courts across the country, causing potential disruption of the effective date in several states.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
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    Environmental Protection Agency Implements Major Clean Water Act Regulatory Changes

    This alert provides an update on steps the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken under Executive Orders (EO) promoting President Trump's deregulatory agenda.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
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    EPA And U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers Seek To Redefine "Waters Of The United States" . . . Again

    On June 9, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (collectively the Agencies) announced their intent to initiate a regulatory rulemaking to roll back the ...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Lippes Mathias LLP
    Lippes Mathias LLP
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    EPA Issues Final Rule Diminishing Federal Jurisdiction Over Wetlands

    On Aug. 29, 2023, the U.S. EPA and Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued the final rule amending the definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP
    Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP
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    EPA Maintains Current Drinking Water Standards For PFOA And PFOS But Plans To Reconsider Other PFAS Compounds

    On May 14, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") announced that it will keep the current National Primary Drinking Water Regulations ("NPDWR") for perfluorooctanoic acid ("PFOA") and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid ("PFOS") under the Safe Drinking Water Act ("SDWA"), while extending the compliance deadline from 2029 to 2031. EPA further announced it plans to rescind requirements in those regulations applicable to other PFAS and mixtures of certain PFAS in drinking water. The NPDWR cons
    United StatesEnvironment
    Crowell & Moring LLP
    Crowell & Moring LLP
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    EPA Proposes Safe Drinking Water Act Standards For PFAS: Forever Chemicals Will Lead To Forever Superfund Sites

    Yesterday, EPA proposed to regulate certain PFAS under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA proposed Maximum Contaminant Level Goals for PFOA and PFOS of zero.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Foley Hoag LLP
    Foley Hoag LLP
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    EPA Provides Guidance On CERCLA Enforcement Discretion Policy For Certain PFAS

    EPA held two listening sessions recently to announce its intention to draft a formal enforcement discretion policy that would shield certain PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Phelps Dunbar LLP
    Phelps Dunbar LLP
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    EPA Seeks A 60-Day Stay Of PFAS In Drinking Water Case

    Earlier this week, the D.C. Circuit Court granted the Environmental Protection Agency (the "EPA") a 60-day stay of litigation regarding the agency's PFAS drinking water rule, allowing the Trump administration time to review the first of its kind federal drinking water PFAS regulation which previously set stringent limits on 6 PFAS in drinking water.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Duane Morris LLP
    Duane Morris LLP
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    Federalism And The Regulation Of PFAS

    There has been much angst at the state level that EPA has not moved faster to develop drinking water or cleanup standards for PFAS
    United StatesEnvironment
    Foley Hoag LLP
    Foley Hoag LLP
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    How Low Did U.S. EPA Go--U.S. EPA Issues Its Long-Awaited Draft PFAS Drinking Water Standards

    Almost two years to the date after U.S. EPA issued its regulatory determination for contaminants on the forth Contaminant Candidate List, U.S. EPA has issued its draft rule setting drinking water limits...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Jenner & Block LLP
    Jenner & Block LLP
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    Legal Limbo: How Low Can We Go? EPA Proposes National PFAS Limits In Drinking Water At Very Low Levels

    On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed what may be considered the most significant National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (NPDWR) to date pertaining...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Shipman & Goodwin LLP
    Shipman & Goodwin LLP
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    Ninth Circuit Ruling Expands Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Over Groundwater Discharges

    A recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California, Oregon and several other western states, potentially extends Clean Water Act (CWA) ...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Farella Braun & Martel
    Farella Braun & Martel
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    Promulgation Of TMDLs Does Not Create A Non-Discretionary Duty To Require NPDES Permits

    When EPA approved total maximum daily loads for the Charles River, but failed to require NPDES permits for persons discharging stormwater to the Charles, CLF sued.
    United StatesEnvironment
    Foley Hoag LLP
    Foley Hoag LLP
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    "Putting People Over Fish" Update: Trump's New Executive Order On California Water And Challenges For Endangered Species Act

    On January 24, 2025, following President Trump's trip to tour the recent fire damage in Los Angeles, the administration issued a new Executive Order (EO) framed as a response to those fires...
    United StatesEnvironment
    Arnold & Porter
    Arnold & Porter
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