PFAS UPDATE: Key Strategies for Navigating Environmental Due Diligence
PFAS can be a game changer in commercial real estate transactions. As evolving policies expand the scope of potential liabilities and cleanup costs, environmental professionals must consider what steps they can take to address, mitigate, and manage PFAS-related risks at potentially impacted properties.
Environmental risk assessment is evolving with some rapidly emerging and important factors that can’t be ignored. Anyone involved in CRE transactions routinely assesses a wide range of potential risks.
How to Prepare for New PFAS Rules Coming in 2020
By Guy Crittenden. The management of PFAS CHEMICALS (THE “FOREVER CHEMICALS”) is one of the biggest issues in environmental risk management today.
Webinar – The Dirty Side of Dry Cleaning: Liabilities & Transaction Considerations
Watch the webinar recording from March 28 at 1 PM Eastern Time for a free webinar "The Dirty Side of Dry Cleaning: Liabilities & Transaction Considerations".
Webinar – An Economic Outlook for 2023: The Forecast for CRE
Watch the webinar recording of An Economic Outlook for 2023: The Forecast for CRE from January 10, 2023.
Webinar – Final ASTM E1527-21 Update!
Watch the webinar recording of Final ASTM E1527-21 Update! from January 5, 2023.
Webinar – PFAS Impacts on CRE: Practical Tips for Navigating Environmental Due Diligence
Watch the webinar recording of PFAS Impacts on CRE: Practical Tips for Navigating Environmental Due Diligence from September 27, 2022.
Watch the webinar recording of Dry-Cleaning Sites: Important Considerations for Environmental Due Diligence and Remediation from July 19, 2022.
Minnesota Announces PFAS Rulemaking
Minnesota has begun enacting substantive rules and standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement arm intends to focus the Agency’s remediation and cost-recovery efforts under the federal Superfund law on manufacturers of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ...
EPA Enforcement Will Focus On Climate Change and PFAS
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that climate change and PFAS will be a focus of investigation and enforcement in coming years.
EPA enforcement priorities include new focus on landfill methane, PFAS
The agency’s latest update to its National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives drew comments from industry trade groups as well as New York City about potential implications for waste operations.
EPA’s new definition of PFAS could omit thousands of ‘forever chemicals’
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office responsible for protecting the public from toxic substances has changed how it defines PFAS for a second time since 2021, a move critics say they fear will exclude thousands of “forever chemicals” from regulation and largely benefit industry.
EPA Releases Initial Nationwide Monitoring Data on 29 PFAS and Lithium
irst of 12 sets of data to be released through 2026, this information further builds upon EPA actions to address PFAS in Drinking Water
EPA exploring new measurement methods for PFAS in air
Taking place from 20th to 22nd September 2023 in sunny Barcelona, CEM 2023 will be our largest emissions monitoring event to date, with more exhibitors and presentations than ever!
New heating method tackles PFAS contamination on spent treatment media
There are several established technologies to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water, including membranes and adsorbents. However, such purification media can pose disposal challenges due to the potential for further PFAS contamination stemming from the spent media. Now, a new treatment technology developed by researchers at the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.; www.missouri.edu)...
PFAS CERCLA Designation Delayed
In September 2022, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to designate perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).
NH is first state to partner with ‘PFAS Annihilator’ to destroy firefighting foams
In 2019, the state of New Hampshire banned firefighting foams containing PFAS chemicals, as mounting evidence linked the widely used fire suppressant to higher cancer rates among firefighters...
Scientists Discover Bacteria That Can Break Down Certain “Forever Chemicals”
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have identified two bacteria species that can degrade a stubborn group of pollutants, known as “forever chemicals” or PFAS. These naturally-occurring bacteria can break the chemical bonds in these
Environmental Justice and Plastics Debate Heats Up
Plastic industry backers and environmental justice (EJ) advocates exchanged sometimes fiery comments at a recent hearing over plastics production and its impact on poor communities of color.
PFAS and Your Wastewater Discharge Permit: What to Know and How PFAS Affects Permit Requirements
Beginning with the PFAS Action Plan of 2019, it became clear to industry observers and environmental professionals that EPA intends to regulate PFAS compounds...
Superfund Research Program Science Digest: Technology Profile
Researchers at the University of Rhode Island SRP Center, led by Rainer Lohmann, Ph.D., developed a passive sampling device to monitor per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater...
Monitoring multiple levels of groundwater data at PFAS-contaminated sites
The Solinst Model 403 CMT Multilevel Systems are tried and tested solutions for monitoring PFAS-contaminated sites effectively.
New invention turns toxic forever chemicals (PFAS) into harmless molecules
In our quest to discover ways to rid our environment of “forever chemicals,” the focus is now shifting towards a worrying subclass of these pollutants that contain chlorine atoms within their chemical makeup...
Real-Time Detection and Quantification of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) detection and quantification have gained significant attention within analytical chemistry.1 This field has become very...
Groundbreaking study shows unaffordable costs of PFAS cleanup from wastewater
A new report published by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) finds that technologies and expenses needed to remove and destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from certain wastewater streams across Minnesota
Critical Oversight in EPA’s PFAS Rules: Ignoring a Key Contaminant Source
A recent study conducted by Harvard found that unmonitored PFAS can accumulate and last for centuries.
Researchers in California examined tactics used by companies to delay restrictions on forever chemicals
