Counsel for the EPA and DuPont submitted a joint stipulation of dismissal for an appeal filed in the Third Circuit involving an EPA Test Order that previously required DuPont to comply with testing deadlines and other requirements for 6:2 FTSB and HFPO – different types of PFAS chemicals. The EPA released DuPont from the testing…
A memorandum promulgated by U.S. EPA reports that the Analytical Chemistry Branch (ACB) of the Office of Pesticide Programs, Biological and Economic Analysis Division (BEAD) did not detect PFAS in the 10 tested pesticide products when it based its analysis on a newly developed methodology targeted towards eliminating false positive detections. May 18, 2023 |…
The U.S. District Court in South Carolina denied DuPont’s and other companies’ motion for summary judgment seeking to limit their liability in a multi-district litigation case involving alleged PFAS contamination in aqueous film-forming foams (“AFFF”). Despite arguments to the contrary, the Court concluded that the claim against the defendants contained at least one question that…
A study by a team of Harvard University researchers says current approaches to cleaning up contamination from PFAS-based firefighting foam, known as aqueous-film forming foam (AFFF), at Defense Department (DOD) sites fail to target precursor chemicals that could continue to produce regulated PFAS for centuries, adding to questions about the pace of DOD’s efforts. “The…
This study identifies two types of naturally occurring bacteria found in soil that breakdown a PFAS subgroup that contains one or more chlorine atoms. May 15, 2023 | Nature Water