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In 2016, after decades without any changes, Congress amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (the "TCSA") with an eye towards updating and modernizing the regulatory regime for chemical substances.

Delays by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in processing premanufacture notices (PMNs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) may lessen under final amendments to section 5 published on December 18, 2024.

According to the Unified Regulatory Agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or ​"the Agency") plans to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking ("NPRM")...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are the contaminant of concern across the water industry.

Recently adopted California legislation (AB 347) aims to fill fundamental gaps in implementation of the state's restrictions on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances ("PFAS")...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting at its White Oak, Maryland campus on September 25, 2024, to discuss and facilitate public...

Food and Drug Administration's proposal will classify pre-amendment wound dressings and wound washes as Class II or III devices...

FDA recently issued a draft guidance, Chemical Analysis for Biocompatibility Assessment of Medical Devices, which describes chemical characterization methods that may be used to demonstrate...

In June 2023, the U.S. Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit declined to resolve a unique PFAS state-law issue in Admiral Insurance Co. v. Fire-Dex LLC when it rejected an insurer's...

On June 30, 2021, domestic producers filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber from France, Mexico and South Korea.

On Wednesday, November 5, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments on executive tariff authority, a case that promises to have ripple effects far beyond the bounds of pure trade law.

On February 6, 2023, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated over 50 products liability and consumer protection lawsuits alleging that hair relaxing products.

Per-and-Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a broad class of manmade, highly stable chemicals. PFAS exhibit both grease repelling (lipophobic) and water repelling (hydrophobic) properties...

Investigated product: The vinyl chloride monomer homopolymer obtained by the process of suspension polymerization, commonly known as PVC suspension, PVC suspension resin or simply PVC.

The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not prohibit states from requiring out-of-state corporationsIn Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Robert Mallory (a Virginia resident) sued his former employer, Norfolk Southern (a Virginia-based railroad)...

On August 28, the California Office of Administrative Law approved the "Safer Chemical Products" regulations developed by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which manages the state's Proposition 65 program, is reviewing comments on its latest attempt to...

After years of tumultuous and unpredictable regulatory uncertainty, the Maine Legislature has again decided to overhaul the state's PFAS in Products program...