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Breaking Down Microplastics: From Contamination to Compliance 2025


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  • Start Date:2025-12-15 14:00:00
  • End Date:2025-12-15 16:00:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Environmental

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Overview

Tiny Particles, Big Impact

Microplastics have quickly emerged as one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Once considered an invisible threat, these microscopic pollutants are now being detected across Pennsylvania’s waterways, soils, and ecosystems—raising urgent questions about contamination, regulation, and responsibility. As science catches up with the scope of the problem, regulators, industry leaders, and communities are being called to respond.

Join our Legal & Technical Panel: Microplastics Under the Microscope!

Dive into the latest on microplastics—their sources, environmental behavior, and remediation strategies—as our legal and technical experts unpack this emerging environmental threat. Focusing on Pennsylvania research and regulatory trends, this session is your window into what’s happening on the ground.

Key topics include:

  • Overview of microplastics as emerging contaminants
  • Recent statewide studies
  • New and evolving legislative matters
  • A case study discussion concerning a recent microplastics enforcement and cleanup action in Pennsylvania. The discussion highlights regulatory response strategies, inter-agency coordination, and practical lessons learned for both regulators and regulated entities.

This expert-powered session on microplastics explores the science, the law, and that landmark Pennsylvania cleanup enforcement.



Co-sponsored with the PBA Environmental & Energy Law Section.

Faculty

Judd Mahan, PG

Mr. Mahan is a Senior Scientist and Project Director with 25 years of scientific consulting experience. Mr. Mahan has extensive experience in environmental assessment, remediation, permitting, and regulatory compliance projects. He has led and provided technical support in assessment and remediation for port facilities, large utilities, construction projects, industry, and petroleum distribution facilities. He is active with the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC) where he helped prepare the Contaminants of Emerging Concern (2023) and Microplastics (2023) Guidance Documents. Currently he is a team member for the ITRC Biological Contaminants of Emerging Concern guidance document which is in preparation. Judd earned bachelor’s degrees in Geology (2002) and History (1996) at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina Pembroke. Judd is a licensed professional geologist in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. He is also a Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) with the Academy of Board Certified Environmental Professionals. Judd’s current work at Tetra Tech includes environmental permitting support for projects ranging from alternative energy and highway construction to federal and state port facilities in Georgia and South Carolina.

Sean Fullmer, PG

Sean Fullmer is a licensed geologist in Pennsylvania and Delaware and has been working in the environmental consulting industry for 17 years. He currently acts as the commercial/industrial client lead in the Tetra Tech’s King of Prussia, Pennsylvania office and has experience with Pennsylvania regulatory framework including the Land Recycling, Administration of Storage Tanks and Spill Prevention, Safe Drinking Water, and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) programs. Current projects include brownfield redevelopments within the PADEP southeast and southcentral regions; NPDES discharge and DRBC withdrawal/discharge docket approvals for the PFAS groundwater extraction and treatment system, and property transfer assessments for the former Willow Grove Navy Base; site-specific impact to groundwater analysis and decision-making support for an agricultural chemical manufacturer in northern Delaware, and regular multi-state environmental due diligence investigations.

Faran Savitz

Faran works on PennEnvironment’s Zero Waste program, working to reduce plastic waste in Pennsylvania and to protect our parks and open spaces. Faran’s work has included helping to write and pass bans on single-use plastic across Pennsylvania, including in Philadelphia, promoting the Zero Waste PA package of legislation, protecting major conservation laws like the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and publishing the report “Microplastics in Pennsylvania,” which was the result of a project testing more than 50 Pennsylvania waterways for microplastic pollution.

Errin T. McCaulley, Jr., Esq.

Mr. McCaulley is an associate attorney in the Energy & Environmental Law practice group of McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC, focusing on environmental, health, and safety (EHS) compliance and dispute resolution. On this front, he regularly advises clients regarding compliance with federal and state regulatory programs, including the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and other programs administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He also advises clients regarding the EHS implications of various business transactions, including acquisitions, mergers, and sales. In addition to assisting commercial and industrial interests with EHS, Mr. McCaulley also assists real estate developers throughout the various stages of development, including compliance with environmental permitting and regulatory requirements. He earned his BS from the Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College, and his JD from the Pennsylvania State University Law School.

Scott A. Gould, Esq.

Mr. Gould is the Co-Chair of the Energy & Environmental Law Group at McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC. He focuses his practice entirely in the environmental law and toxic tort areas, and counsels business and industrial clients in all aspects of environmental law compliance. The scope of his practice includes compliance counseling, permitting, and litigation relating to environmental matters. Mr. Gould has extensive experience in the remediation and reuse of environmentally impacted properties. He works with business and real estate/land use attorneys on counseling regarding the environmental implications of business and real estate transactions, and land use matters ranging from storm water and wetlands to alleged health implications of proposed development. Mr. Gould also litigates environmental and toxic tort matters before all state, federal and administrative courts and tribunals. He received his B.S. from Old Dominion University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law. He is the co-editor of the PBI treatise Environmental Law and Practice, and is the immediate past Chair of the PBA Environmental & Energy Law Section.


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