by Dragun Corporation Staff | Oct 25, 2021 | Blog
The White House has released their three-year plan to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Will this roadmap get us any closer to action? Eight Agencies Involved As an indication of the widespread impact of PFAS is the number of agencies involved in...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog
About one year ago, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts became aware of a previously unknown, potential per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) issue. Fluorinated high-density polyethylene (HDPE) containers...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog
The Maui Decision seems destined to be just a footnote in environmental regulatory history. It was just over a year ago that we started to roll the language of the Maui Decision into our lexicon. Most notably, the term “functional equivalent” (See “Clean Water Act:...
by Dragun Corporation Staff | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog
Decades come and decades go, but there remain some constants: the never-ending debate over the definition of jurisdictional waters or Waters of the United States (WOTUS) and how to address excess nutrients affecting surface waters. There is much more to discuss with...
by Alan Hahn | Sep 3, 2021 | Blog
We regularly list technical and legislative updates on our PFAS Resources page. Some proposed legislation have catchy titles such as the “Filthy Fifty Act.” Others are straight forward like the “PFAS Action Act of 2021.” There are no shortages of proposed federal...
by Alan Hahn | Aug 23, 2021 | Blog
Nearly everyone in the environmental community expects more enforcement and more aggressive environmental enforcement under the Biden Administration. In several of our blogs, we discussed the framework of Biden’s environmental protection goals, including a focus on...