EPA Announces FIFRA/TSCA Settlements with Finland-Based Kemira Group
TSCA/FIFRA Enforcement: EPA continues to steadily increase its enforcement of U.S. chemical control laws. Last Thursday, the EPA announced settlements with two subsidiaries of the Finland-based Kemira Group to resolve alleged violations of Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). Kemira Chemicals agreed to pay a civil penalty of […]
Verdant Settles EPCRA Enforcement Matter for New Cingular Wireless
EPCRA: Verdant is pleased to announce that it helped its client, New Cingular Wireless, reach a favorable settlement with EPA over a longstanding EPCRA enforecement matter involving legacy facilities owned by a predecessor company. A copy of EPA’s press release is embedded below. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New Cingular Wireless (NCW) […]
EPA Undertakes FIFRA Enforcement Initiative Against Companies Selling Alleged Plant Growth Regulators
FIFRA Enforcement: On September 13, 2012, EPA issued a press release announcing three enforcement actions the agency recently settled against Missouri pesticide distributors under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). EPA alleged the distributors violated FIFRA by selling and distributing unregistered and misbranded pesticides. All three cases involved the sale and distribution of “plant growth regulators,” […]
EPA Levies Record-Setting Penalties under FIFRA
FIFRA Enforcement: On September 7, 2012, EPA and the Department of Justice announced criminal and civil settlements with the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company for alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the federal law governing manufacture, distribution, and sale of pesticides. Scotts produces pesticides for commercial and consumer lawn and garden uses. The case levied the largest criminal penalty, […]
TSCA Fines Announced
EPA issued a News Release Monday July 23 announcing fines for violations of TSCA’s recordkeeping and reporting requirements. The announcement details the following settlements: Haldor Topsoe, Inc., paid $202,779 to settle a complaint that it had violated the 2006 IUR rule for 13 chemical substances. Chemtura Corporation paid $55,901 to settle a complaint that its […]
Irene Hantman to Moderate ABA Panel on Federal Suspension and Debarment Authority
Enforcement: Verdant Law is pleased to announce that Irene Hantman will be moderating a panel on the federal government’s suspension and debarment authority. The program, “Suspension and Debarment an Administrative Tool for Addressing NonCompliance: Perspective from EPA,” is sponsored by the ABA Sections on Administrative Law and Environment, Energy, and Resources. It will be hosted […]
EPA Fines Dover Chemical $1.4 Million for TSCA Violations – But Was EPA Really Looking for an Easy Way to Ban SCCPs?
TSCA Enforcement: On February 7, 2012, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with the Dover Chemical Company to resolve alleged violations of the premanufacture notice (PMN) requirements in section 5 of the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Section 5 requires companies to file a PMN and receive […]
ECHA Publishes the 2011- 2013 Work Program of the REACH and CLP Enforcement Forum
REACH/CLP Enforcement: On July 6, 2011, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published the 2011 -2013 work program for the Forum on Exchange of Information on Enforcement of the REACH and CLP Regulations. The program lists the Forum’s current and upcoming activities, a description of the activities, the expected time frame for each, and its priority. Readers less familar […]
Pesticides, Nanoscale Materials, and FIFRA
FIFRA/Nanotechnology: Guest Column: Kathryn Brausch & Irene Hantman Law Clerk & University of Maryland Law Fellow US EPA Office of Civil Enforcement Readers interested in EPA’s regulation of nanoscale materials may want to know about recently proposed policies under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) that would affect the use of nanoscale materials […]
EU Environmental Law Group Releases Reports on Member State Implementation and Enforcement of REACh
REACh: The EU public interest environmental law group, ClientEarth, recently released a series of progress reports summarizing Member State activities under the European Union (EU) regulation: Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACh). Each report reviews a different Member State’s efforts to implement and enforce REACh. Reports also are available for three non-Member State countries that have enacted REACh – Lichtenstein, Norway, […]