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The global medical devices market size was valued at $425.5 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $612.7 billion by 2025, grow at a CAGR of 5.4%. More than 180,000 U.S. companies are involved in designing, developing, manufacturing, testing, marketing, packaging, and distributing medical devices in this thriving market. Today's Medical Developments serves the need of manufacturers and design professionals in medtech by featuring products, services, and techniques to help improve design an...

This quarterly newsletter provides essential updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business.

- ADVERTISEMENT - Since 2012, ongoing renovations at the North Long Beach high school have required crews to excavate soil that the Long Beach Unified School District determined had “chemicals of concern.” In the summer of 2013, the district removed approximately 549 tons of soil containing chlordane, a chemical pesticide that was used for termite treatment until it was banned in 1988 after it was determined it was a potential carcinogen. In 2018, LBUSD identified roughly 130 cubic yards of...

PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS Senate Committee Approved Bill that Would Require Guidance on Reducing Firefighter Exposure to PFAS Regulatory Developments EPA Makes Changes to New Chemicals Program Likely to Further Complicate, Slow Reviews EPA Takes Steps to Set PFAS Agenda OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012 EPA Said Interim Rule to Amend TSCA Mercury Reporting Requirements Was Forthcoming Environmental Gro...

FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced that Bryan Zumwalt has been named a Senior Managing Director and Head of Government Affairs within the

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joins a coalition of 18 attorneys general in challenging the Trump Administration’s final rule

California sues to recover costs for Exide lead cleanup, but community still wants justice [Los Angeles Times] Years after pledging to recover cleanup costs from those responsible for spreading lead pollution over thousands of homes in southeast Los Angeles County, California regulators have finally filed suit against multiple companies connected to the closed Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. The action notably excludes Exide, which under a recently approved bankruptcy plan...

Years after pledging to recover cleanup costs from those responsible for spreading lead pollution over thousands of homes in southeast Los Angeles County, California regulators have finally filed suit against multiple companies connected to the closed Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon. The action notably excludes Exide, which under a recently approved bankruptcy plan was allowed to walk away from the half-demolished hazardous site and stick California taxpayers with much of t...

California sues to recover costs for Exide lead cleanup, but community still wants justice Tony Barboza © (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Portions of the former Exide Technologies lead-acid battery recycling plant in Vernon, seen in October, are wrapped in plastic to prevent the release of lead and other contaminants. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Years after pledging to recover cleanup costs from those responsible for spreading lead pollution over thousands of homes in southea...