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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Environmental

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, July 22, 2025

  • 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 provide environmental counsel with an overview of recent regulatory developments and science related to PFAS and discuss how these changes impact the regulated community. Highlighting recent policy shifts and legal cases, the panel covers the anticipated impact of a changing landscape on regulation and liability concerning emerging contaminants.

Faculty

Dianne R. Phillips
Partner
Holland & Knight LLP

Ms. Phillips concentrates her practice in litigation, regulatory, energy and environmental law. Her environmental practice focuses on brownfields redevelopment and remediation, including former military installations, former manufactured gas plants (MGPs) and vapor intrusion sites. Ms. Phillips regularly advises developers, lenders and investors in real estate transactions involving contaminated property, enforcement defense, regulatory compliance, due diligence, and complex project development and permitting matters, including those under NEPA and the NPDES, among others. She regularly advises clients – including municipalities, industry and construction contractors – subject to federal and state environmental regulation, including the TSCA, CWA, RCRA, CERCLA, and CZMA, as well as many state law counterparts. As former assistant general counsel for Suez LNG North America LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, Distrigas of Massachusetts LLC, Ms. Phillips was involved in all aspects of regulatory compliance for the nation's oldest, continuously operating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, including safety and security.

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Charles M. Denton
Partner
Barnes & Thornburg

Mr. Denton represents an array of clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation, enforcement defense, regulatory compliance solutions and pollution insurance coverage disputes. His representation of industrial, municipal, institutional, educational and individual clients includes judicial and administrative environmental proceedings at the federal, state and local levels. He also represents policyholders involved in environmental coverage claim disputes and litigation with millions of dollars in the balance. In addition, Mr. Denton assists clients with managing environmental risks in commercial transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as ISO 14000 environmental management systems. He advises on lender liability issues and environmental audits to assess potential facility contamination and regulatory compliance for the acquisition and financing of real estate, as well as waste management and remedial actions, environmental permits enforcement, and defense of citizens’ suits.

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Description

PFAS continues to make headlines leading the emerging contaminant discussion as state and federal regulators adjust approaches to implementing and enforcing Biden-era PFAS regulations. Currently, the EPA plans cutbacks and delays to some PFAS drinking water regulations, enforcements, and reporting. In May, EPA delayed PFAS reporting deadlines under the Toxic Substances Control Act which requires manufacturers of PFAS and PFAS-containing products to report information on PFAS dating back to 2011. States have also become actively involved in regulating PFAS, issuing new health advisories, MCLs, and notification and cleanup standards in various environmental media.

These developments arrive with a growing trend in toxic tort litigation involving emerging contaminants. Chemical regulation and toxic tort litigation are challenging accepted notions of risk-based science. Environmental advocates push for ever stricter regulation of emerging contaminants, and plaintiffs have been pursuing extensive toxic tort litigation.

Listen as our authoritative panel of environmental law and technical experts discusses the most recent science behind these emerging contaminants, analyzes the most notable decided--and ongoing--litigation, explains how states and the EPA are regulating these chemicals, and provides practical guidance for practitioners to help advise and limit client exposure across industries.

Outline

I. Emerging contaminants overview

II. Regulatory updates

III. The science

IV. Sampling and analytical methods

V. Sources of contamination, transport, and remediation techniques

VI. Identifying responsible parties

VII. Current and future litigation

VIII. Risk transfer, including environmental insurance

IX. Practical guidance

X. Future trends: technical, regulatory, and legal

Benefits

The panel will review these and other essential issues:

  • What is the latest science behind these emerging contaminants?
  • What should companies and counsel do to ensure compliance with differing state standards?
  • What is the status of EPA PFAS regulation?
  • What types of legal claims are defendants facing from government and private litigation?
  • What steps should environmental counsel and clients take to minimize the litigation and regulatory risk of emerging contaminants?