Water Quality

EHS Considerations in the Paperboard Converting Industry

Posted: October 23rd, 2025

While the process of converting paperboard into corrugated sheets and containers seems rather straightforward, there are a wide array of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) challenges faced when manufacturing these products. As experts in both the converting process and EHS […]

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New Stormwater Permit to Impact The Los Angeles And Los Alamitos Area

Posted: October 16th, 2025

The Los Angeles Regional Water Board (LA Water Board) has issued a revised draft General National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit (Permit) that will cover stormwater discharges from certain privately owned commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) sites within two […]

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Changes to U.S. EPA PFAS Drinking Water Standards Under the Trump Administration

Posted: July 9th, 2025

In April 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) finalized Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) for five per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), and hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid […]

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CWA Hazardous Substances FRP: Implementation Delay Loading

Posted: June 11th, 2025

September 10, 2025 Update: The Spring 2025 regulatory agenda was released in early September, including a short update on the Clean Water Act (CWA) Hazardous Substances Facility Response Plan (FRP) rule. The entry did not give many details but confirmed […]

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North Carolina Takes Decisive Action in Regulating PFAS in Wastewater

Posted: April 17th, 2025

On September 11, 2024, the Water Quality Committee of North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s (NCDEQ) Environmental Management Commission (EMC) approved a motion to establish per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) monitoring for “every industrial and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System […]

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Happy World WATER Day: ALL4 Water Services

Posted: March 20th, 2025

Happy (Early) World Water Day! World Water Day is an annual United Nations observance on March 22 that began in 1993 to highlight the importance of fresh water. As ALL4’s Water Lead, I thought World Water Day was the perfect […]

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