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PODCAST: Announcing Crowell & Moring’s Regulatory Forecast 2019

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.28.19

On February 27, Crowell & Moring published its fifth annual Regulatory Forecast, exploring a diverse range of regulatory developments coming out of Washington and other leading regulatory centers of power.

The publication’s editors, Richard Lehfeldt and Dan Wolff, both partners in the firm’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, sat down to discuss the forecast. In this 21 minute podcast, Richard and Dan discuss what you will find in our Regulatory Forecast 2019.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.28.26

PFAS Regulatory Alert: EPA Rolls Back RCRA Proposed Rule on “Hazardous Waste” but Does Not Disturb Proposed RCRA Rule on PFAS

Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew a February 2024 Biden administration proposed rule, “Definition of Hazardous Waste Applicable to Corrective Action for Releases From Solid Waste Management Units,” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).[1] The withdrawn proposal would have revised RCRA corrective action regulations to expressly apply the broader statutory definition of “hazardous waste,” rather than only the narrower regulatory definition. Now, EPA is maintaining the status quo for corrective action under RCRA. However, EPA’s withdrawal of its proposed RCRA hazardous waste definition makes no mention of its corresponding proposal from 2024 to list nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as RCRA hazardous constituents.[2] This disjointed withdrawal, while providing some certainty for regulated entities, does not resolve how EPA plans to address PFAS under the RCRA program....