RCRA

June 19, 2025

Legal Considerations Concerning the End-of-Life Management of Solar, Wind, and Battery Technologies in the US

Solar, wind, and battery technologies have, and will continue to be, front and center of the renewable energy and clean technology transition. Entities in the renewable energy and clean technology space should be closely following legal developments concerning the end-of-life management of these technologies, particularly as their end-of-life approaches and federal and state requirements evolve. Continue reading

Environmental Law, EPR, RCRA, Recycling, Waste
October 20, 2022

Governor Newsom Vetoes PFAS Reporting Bill But Signs Into Law Legislation Banning PFAS in Cosmetics and Textiles

On September 29, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill No. 2247. The bill would have required manufacturers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) or products or product components containing intentionally added PFAS to register the PFAS or products or product components on a publicly accessible data collection interface, along with other information. Continue reading

Consumer Law and Environment, Contamination, Emerging Contaminants, Hazmat, RCRA, Real Estate and Environment, Toxic Tort, TSCA

Arie Feltman-Frank, California, Cosmetics, Newsom, PFAS
September 7, 2022

Jenner & Block Wishes Bon Voyage to Gay Sigel as She Starts Her Next Adventure with the City of Chicago

As Gay Sigel walked through the doors at One IBM Plaza in Chicago, fresh out of law school and ready to launch her career as an attorney at Jenner & Block, she could not have envisioned the tremendous impact she would have on her clients, her colleagues, and her community over the next 39 years. Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Consumer Law and Environment, Contamination, COVID-19, Emerging Contaminants, FIFRA, Greenhouse Gas, Groundwater, Hazmat, NEPA, OSHA, Prop 65, RCRA, Real Estate and Environment, Sustainability, Toxic Tort, TSCA, Water

Allison Torrence, Andi Kenney, City of Chicago, Corporate Environmental Lawyer, Gabrielle Sigel, Gay Sigel, Jenner & Block, Steven Siros
May 19, 2022

U.S. EPA Updates Regional Screening Levels to Add Five New PFAS Chemicals

On May 18, 2022, U.S. EPA updated its Regional Screening Level tables to include five new per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The five new PFAS compounds added to the RSL tables are hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid and its ammonium salt (HFPO-DA – sometimes referred to as GenX chemicals), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorononanoic… Continue reading

CERCLA, Climate Change, Contamination, Emerging Contaminants, Groundwater, RCRA, Sustainability, Water

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease, ammonium salt, CERCLA, Contamination, Corporate Environmental Lawyer, EPA, GenX chemicals, hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid, HFPO-DA, industrial soil, Jenner & Block, perfluorononanoic acid, perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, perfluorooctanoic acid, PFAS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFOA, PFOS, Polyfluoroalkyl, RCRA, Regional Screening Level, remediation, RSL, Steven M. Siros, tap water
April 19, 2022

Earth Week Series: The Future of Environmental Regulation

As we near Earth Day 2022, the United States may be headed toward a profound change in the way EPA and similar administrative agencies regulate the complex areas of environmental law. EPA began operating more than 50 years ago in 1970, and has been tasked with promulgating and enforcing some of the most complex regulations… Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Contamination, COVID-19, Emerging Contaminants, Greenhouse Gas, OSHA, RCRA, TSCA, Water

administrative law, CERCLA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Environmental Law, EPA, ETS, OSHA, RCRA, Supreme Court, TSCA, West Virginia
April 18, 2022

Earth Week Series: Imagine a Day Without Environmental Lawyers

On this 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, I am not writing yet another, typically not very funny, riff on one of Shakespeare’s most famous lines.[1] Instead, I am inspired by one of the most popular of our blogs, written in 2017 by our talented former partner, E. Lynn Grayson, “Imagine a Day Without Water.” To… Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Contamination, Emerging Contaminants, Greenhouse Gas, Groundwater, NEPA, RCRA, Sustainability, TSCA, Water

anniversay, Clean Air Act, Earth Day, Earth Week, environment, EPA, Gabrielle Sigel, Lawyers, Stephen H. Armstrong
March 23, 2022

U.S. EPA Releases “ECHO Notify” to Increase Public Awareness of Enforcement Related Information

On March 22, 2022, U.S. EPA released a new web tool designed to ensure that information regarding environmental violations and enforcement actions is more readily available to the public. The new tool, called ECHO Notify, allows users to sign up for weekly emails when new information is available with respect to violations of environmental statutes… Continue reading

Air, Climate Change, Contamination, Emerging Contaminants, RCRA, Sustainability, Water

CAA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Corporate Environmental Lawyer, CWA, ECHO Notify, environment, EPA, hazardous waste, Jenner & Block, RCRA, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, SDWA, Steven M. Siros, Water
April 23, 2021

Earth Day 2021: CERCLA and RCRA in The Biden Administration: Elevating Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Addressing Hazardous Wastes

We close out the Corporate Environmental Lawyer Blog’s weeklong celebration of Earth Day with the two federal programs aimed at cleaning up existing toxic waste sites and preventing the creation of new ones, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”). Continue reading

CERCLA, Climate Change, Emerging Contaminants, RCRA, Sustainability

2019 GAO Report, American Jobs Plan Fact Sheet, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, ARAR, Biden Administration, Brownfields, CERCLA, chemical manufacturer, chemicals, clean water, Climate Change, Contamination, criminal prosecution, dioxane, Earth Day, Earth Week, electric power generation, Electric Utilities, Emerging Contaminants, Environmental Law, environmental review requirement, EPA, federal appropriations, federal clean air, financial responsibility exemption, hazardous substance, NPL, petroleum and coal, PFAS, RCRA White House, regulatory role, regulatory rollback, remedial role, SDWA, Superfund Strategic Plan, Superfund Task Force, sustainability, Trump Administration
February 11, 2020

White House Promises to Use “All Available Tools” to Implement Deep Cuts to EPA Funding in Fiscal Year 2021

On Monday, February 10, 2020, the Trump Administration released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2021. The proposal calls for sweeping cuts to a number of federal agencies and departments, including deep cuts to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”). If enacted, the proposed budget would grant $6.7 billion in funding to USEPA, a… Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Consumer Law and Environment, OSHA, RCRA, Sustainability, TSCA, Water

Air, CERCLA, Climate Change, Corporate Environmental Lawyer, Critical Environmental, GHG, Hazmat, Health & Safety Developments, Matthew G. Lawson, OSHA, RCRA, Sustainability, TSCA, USEPA, Water
July 29, 2019

Exploring the E-Suite with Elizabeth Anderson, Ph.D., Fellow ATS, Chief Science Officer and Senior Fellow, Exponent, Inc.; formerly, Carcinogen Assessment Group and Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, U.S. EPA

I led the health sciences assessment work for the first 14 years after U.S. EPA was formed in December 1970. At the time, U.S. EPA was a very small agency. I was the only health scientist in an eight-person Office of Technical Analysis, reporting directly to U.S. EPA’s first Administrator, Bill Ruckelshaus. Continue reading

Air, CERCLA, Consumer Law and Environment, RCRA, Toxic Tort, Water

and Rodenticide Act, Bill Ruckelshaus, Carcinogen Assessment Group, Carcinogen Assessment Group and Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Chief Science Officer, Clean Air Act, Clement Associates, Distortion of scientific foundations and fact to achieve economic or political gain is deplorable and should be rejected, Dr. Roy Albert, Earth Day, Elizabeth Anderson, Exponent, Federal Insecticide, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Fungicide, Health risk assessment, honest science, Inc., mechanism of action, National Academy of Sciences, prove safety, public health protection, Radiation Authorities, RCRA, science as applied to public health protection, Sciences International, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, The Red Book, toxic tort litigation, U.S. EPA, U.S. EPA Alumni Association, zero-risk tolerance carcinogen