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Stay Vigilant: Keeping Companies Accountable under France’s New Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law

Vermont Law

Danone’s 2021 Vigilance Plan comprises of five pages within its 70-page Social, Societal, and Environmental Responsibility policy. This initiative includes: 100% recyclable, reusable, or compostable plastic packaging by 2025; reduce its use of virgin plastic; and increase the proportion of recycled plastic in its packaging.

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Supreme Court Green Lights State Law Claims in Superfund Context

Environment Next

Supreme Court held that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) (i) does not preclude owners of contaminated property from pursuing state law claims for nuisance, trespass and strict liability, but (ii) requires EPA approval of any remedial action conducted on the landowners’ property.

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DEP Testimony Provides Overview Of Budget Request, Progress On Permitting, Environmental Justice, Infrastructure Investments, PFAS, Watershed Cleanup, Climate, Clean Energy Initiatives

PA Environment Daily

I’m Jessica Shirley, the Interim Acting Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2024- 2025 budget for DEP. Closing The Governor’s 2024-2025 proposed budget for DEP is laying the groundwork to modernize our department.

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France is an Example of How Not to do Residential Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Greenbuilding Law

Under an updated schedule, the government has mandated that from January 1, 2025, forward, buildings that are rated below F or 420 kWh per m² will no longer be allowed to rent flats. Instead, DPE is an extraction based on factors including a structure’s building materials, orientation, mechanical systems, etc.

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The Environmental Catastrophe that is PFAS will see Movement in 2023

Greenbuilding Law

We blogged last year about EPA Proposing Designating PFAS as Hazardous under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as the “Superfund” law and we expect a final rule in 2023. And back in 2019, Patagonia announced that it would phase out the use of PFAS in all of its products by 2025.

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The Chemical Compound—August 2021

Arnold Porter

Maryland Enacted 2025 Ban on Cosmetic Products Containing Certain PFAS and Other Chemicals. Under a law enacted in Maryland at the end of May 2021, the manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or offering for sale of cosmetic products containing certain chemicals is prohibited beginning on January 1, 2025.[[N: The House bill ( H.R.

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The Chemical Compound—May 2021

Arnold Porter

Regan announced on April 27, 2021 that he had established an EPA Council on PFAS (ECP) comprising senior EPA career officials to develop a multi-year strategy for 2021 through 2025 to address PFAS.[[N:News N:News Release, EPA, EPA Administrator Regan Establishes New Council on PFAS (Apr.

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