Chemicals

Experience Highlights

• Chemours, as lead environmental counsel, on a range of regulatory, enforcement and litigation matters relating to the presence of chemicals, including one referred to as GenX, in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina attributable to its facility.
• A number of the nation's leading makers of devices, pesticides and antimicrobial products that are regulated by the EPA, FDA and various state governments on registration and authorization matters, administrative challenges, and enforcement and penalty proceedings; providing counsel on manufacturing and marketing standards applicable to various manufacturing facilities, finished products and articles; and seeking food additive regulations (tolerances) and exemptions for food packaging materials and pesticide residues on foods.
• Consumer Brands Association (formerly Grocery Manufacturers Association) on Proposition 65 regulatory and legislative reform issues.
• Several national retail chains regarding Proposition 65 claims for exposure to phthalates (DEHP, DBP, DINP) in everyday household products—including kitchenware, tools, fashion accessories, and electronics—and Proposition 65 compliance strategies.
• Honeywell, as lead toxic tort litigation counsel, in defending against a consolidated class action and ≈52 individual toxic tort suits related to the presence of PFOA in the groundwater and municipal water supply of Hoosick Falls, New York.
• Numerous manufacturers and retailers in complying with CPSC notification requirements for regulated chemical issues, negotiating corrective action plans for products covered by such requirements and advising on the broad spectrum of other CPSC matters (e.g., product defect investigations, civil penalty enforcement actions, regulatory compliance counseling, etc.).
• Numerous manufacturers and retailers in complying with CPSC notification requirements for regulated chemical issues, negotiating corrective action plans for products covered by such requirements and advising on the broad spectrum of other CPSC matters (e.g., product defect investigations, civil penalty enforcement actions, regulatory compliance counseling, etc.).
• Wolverine World Wide in three federal putative class action tort lawsuits and 200+ individual personal injury and property damage lawsuits arising from the alleged presence of PFAS in drinking water in the Rockford, Michigan vicinity.
• California Chamber of Commerce in a First Amendment challenge to the enforcement of acrylamide warnings.
• Intelligent Global Pooling Systems, the owner/operator of the US's only rental pool for recyclable plastic shipping pallets, regarding domestic and international regulatory counseling and legislative advice for a multiyear initiative to persuade EPA and various US states to fashion regulatory actions that enable the continued use and recycling of responsibly manufactured products, including certain "expedited regulations" required by the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act.