Summarizes U.S. EPA’s and Illinois Pollution Control Board’s major legislative, regulatory, and policy updates to PFAS in first half of 2024.
Announces U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright, which overturns a long-standing doctrine of deferring to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes.
Highlights PFAS requested items in the U.S. EPA’s 2025 budget request. Major areas include clean and safe water, superfund, PFAS measurement technology, and enforcement efforts to avoid and mitigate PFAS releases.
Outlines the use of OTM-50, the new U.S. EPA method to assist in measuring PFAS in air emissions.
At both the federal and Illinois state level, the second quarter of 2023 saw environmental laws and regulations proposed and changed.
Summarizes new Illinois law banning destroying PFAS by incineration, including what is/isn’t considered incineration and incineration not covered by the law
Summarizes the Illinois Pollution Control Board’s new Time-Limited Water Quality Standard for chloride
Evaluates the methodology EPA used to assess the risks associated with using chrysotile asbestos in removing and replacing sheet gaskets and brake linings
