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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Environmental

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, November 5, 2024

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$297.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE course will guide environmental law counsel on the evolving federal and state regulatory landscape related to perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), providing updates to recent legislative and regulatory changes at both the federal and state level.

Faculty

Matt Thurlow
Partner, Co-Chair Environmental Team
BakerHostetler

Mr. Thurlow is an environmental litigator with significant experience in environmental matters brought under the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, Clean Water Act and RCRA. He formerly served in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice where he acted as lead counsel on a variety of civil enforcement matters, including a major Clean Water Act case against the city of Memphis, Tennessee, several Superfund cases, and several Clean Air Act matters involving power plants and oil refineries. He is a frequent writer and speaker.

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Jeff B. Kray
Managing Partner
Markel Law LLP

Mr. Kray’s practice focuses on water quality, water resources, and complex environmental litigation, including CWA permitting and regulatory compliance, and CERCLA site remediation. He has represented public and private clients throughout the west. Mr. Kray is a frequent speaker and writer on water law and policy and holds leadership positions in the Water Resources and Water Quality and Wetlands Committees of the ABA's Section on Environment, Energy and Resources.

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Russ Abell
Vice President
Sanborn Head & Assoc., Inc

Mr. Abell has over 20 years of experience nationally focusing on hydrogeology and fate and transport analysis. His experience includes consulting expert roles for fate and transport analysis in retail petroleum sites, product liability matters, and chlorinated solvent plume sites in overburden and fractured bedrock settings. Mr. Abell’s recent focus includes fate and transport analysis of PFAS in groundwater impacting municipal public water supply wells and remedial design to address PFAS-contaminated groundwater. He holds a B.A. in geology from Amherst College and an M.S. in geology from Virginia Tech University.  Mr. Abell manages more than 30 staff servicing clients in the areas of environmental due diligence, site assessment, remediation, and vapor intrusion assessment and mitigation.

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Description

In recent years, the U.S. EPA and the Biden administration have issued numerous new regulations of PFAS under CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and other environmental statutes; and states have also stepped up their PFAS regulation.

Most recently, the U.S. EPA has issued a groundbreaking rule regulating the level of certain PFAS in drinking water and an expansive rule requiring PFAS reporting under the TSCA. The U.S. EPA has also recently designated PFOS and PFOA as hazardous substances under CERCLA. State regulators also continue to impose new drinking water limits, cleanup standards, and testing requirements for PFAS. And there is no indication that the federal and state rulemaking is going to slow down.

Listen as our authoritative panel examines the evolving federal and state regulatory landscape for PFAS. The group will discuss current scientific data on PFAS, including a review of the basis on which regulatory standards are developed, opportunities and challenges to determining the source of PFAS contamination (forensic analysis), business sectors, and regions where PFAS is or may soon be a regulatory focus, and new regulations and ongoing litigation. The panel will also offer insight into the legal risks facing companies using and discharging PFAS in manufacturing, companies distributing or selling products containing PFAS, and companies and municipalities responding to PFAS contamination in groundwater, drinking water, and waste.

Outline

  1. Regulatory developments
    1. EPA
    2. States
  2. Scientific developments
    1. Development of Safe Drinking Water Standards
    2. Implications of Drinking Water Standards
    3. PFAS in environmental media
    4. Epidemiology and toxicology
  3. Practitioner takeaways

Benefits

The panel will review these and other essential issues:

  • What new federal regulation of PFAS has the EPA recently instituted? What is the status of future EPA rulemaking?
  • What are recent state regulatory developments with PFAS?
  • How does PFAS cycle through the environment?
  • What science has been used to support EPA and state regulation of PFAS?