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Jennifer Giblin is a senior counsel in Crowell & Moring's Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the firm's Environment & Natural Resources Group. Her practice focuses on compliance counseling under federal and state environmental laws and management of environmental risks in business and real estate transactions. Jennifer also advises clients regarding the transportation of hazardous materials and dangerous goods under U.S. and international regulations and standards.

Jennifer's environmental compliance counseling practice includes solid, hazardous, and radioactive waste identification, management, and disposal issues under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); spill reporting and site remediation obligations under federal and state laws, including RCRA, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA)(also known as Superfund), and state voluntary cleanup and Brownfields programs; and, permitting issues under the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act. Jennifer also helps clients develop and implement corporate compliance programs, including environmental auditing, record retention, and training components, and defends clients against administrative investigations and enforcement actions.

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Lithium cell and battery manufacturers long have been required by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and international hazardous materials/dangerous goods transportation regulations to prove that lithium cells and batteries meet UN testing, specifically Sub-section 38.3 of the UN Manual of Tests and Criteria. Last year, the U.S. DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a rule that will help each entity along the distribution chain easily know that the lithium cell or battery meets UN testing. (85 Fed. Reg. 27810 (May 11, 2020)).
Continue Reading Are You Ready for the U.S. DOT’s January 1, 2022 Deadline for Lithium Battery Test Summaries?

Retailers need to prepare for a major shift in chemical regulation policy recently announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that could affect a broad range of products currently being sold in the US. Under this sweeping new policy, EPA plans to address chemical risks by directly regulating articles that are manufactured with those chemicals. Crowell environmental attorneys, Warren Lehrenbaum and Jennifer Giblin, addressed this and other important developments at EPA in a wide-ranging question and answer session with the Retail Industry Leaders Association on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
Continue Reading EPA’s Shift In Chemical and Hazardous Materials Regulation and What Retailers Can Expect

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) hazard class ORM-D will expire on December 31, 2020. ORM-D stands for Other Regulated Material and is a hazard class specific to the U.S. ORM-D is widely used for consumer commodities that are hazardous materials subject to the DOT Hazardous Material Regulations but that present a limited hazard during…

Over recent years, the use of lithium ion batteries has become widespread in consumer products such as laptops, smartphone, hoverboards, electric scooters and bicycles, and power banks.  Unfortunately, many companies have been forced to recall their products over thermal events involving those products’ lithium ion batteries.

Manufacturers can mitigate their risks of fire hazards with…