PFAS 2025 Update: Regulatory and Scientific Developments, Increasing Litigation, Insurance Issues
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
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.
Outline
- Emerging contaminants overview
- Regulatory updates
- The science
- Sampling and analytical methods
- Sources of contamination, transport, and remediation techniques
- Identifying responsible parties
- Current and future litigation
- Risk transfer, including environmental insurance
- Practical guidance
- 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?
Faculty
John Cuthbertson
Principal, Americas PFAS Team Leader
Ramboll
Mr. Cuthbertson has over 33 years of environmental consulting experience, effectively managing and providing technical... | Read More
Mr. Cuthbertson has over 33 years of environmental consulting experience, effectively managing and providing technical leadership for projects of varying in size and complexity for both private- and public-sector clients. His primary focus during the past nine years has been PFAS. During this time, he has managed dozens of projects involving PFAS constituents, applying his experience to the unique challenges associated with PFAS analytical testing and methodologies, environmental fate and transport, assessment and investigation, and remedial technologies. Previously, Mr. Cuthbertson also provided environmental consulting services in the oil and gas, manufacturing, industrial, property development, and legal sectors.
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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... | Read More
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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Dianne R. Phillips
Partner
Holland & Knight
Ms. Phillips concentrates her practice in litigation, regulatory, energy and environmental law. Her environmental... | Read More
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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