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On August 7, 2026, Illinois enacted House Bill 4418, directing Illinois EPA to develop and incorporate best management practice requirements for controlling plastic pellets and other preproduction plastic materials (commonly called nurdles) in stormwater runoff under NPDES permits by August 7, 2027. The requirement applies to facilities in the organic chemicals, plastics, and synthetic fibers category and the plastics molding and forming point source category.

On July 1, 2026, the EPA issued its long-awaited proposed Sixth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (“UCMR 6”). Despite two petitions urging their inclusion, the agency decided not to add microplastics to the list of contaminants that public water systems will be required to monitor during the 2028–2030 sample collection period. The Petitions The EPA’s proposal confirms that the agency received two separate requests to add microplastics to UCMR 6.

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Jenner & Block Secures Summary Judgment for Sexual Assault Survivor in Nearly Seven-Year Retaliation Suit A Jenner & Block team secured summary judgment on behalf of a pro bono client who was sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after reporting a sexual assault and cooperating with law enforcement, bringing to a close nearly seven years of retaliatory litigation. In November 2015, our client was sexually assaulted over a three-day period at a ranch in rural California.

Jenner & Block Partner Adam Unikowsky has secured a landmark victory at the Supreme Court of the United States inChatrie v. United States, with the Court holding by a 6-3 vote that accessing a person’s location data in the cloud is a “search” under the Fourth Amendment, requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant satisfying the Constitution’s probable cause and particularity requirements.

As part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s July 1, 2025 deregulatory efforts (read our client alert summarizing the actions here), the agency proposed a series of changes to chemical-specific respirator standards affecting multiple hazardous substances including asbestos, benzene, lead, cadmium, and ethylene oxide.

Kimberly Cook, Former Senior FCC Official, Joins Jenner & Block's Communications, Internet, and Technology Practice in Washington, DC WASHINGTON, DC – May 12, 2026: Jenner & Block is pleased to announce that Kimberly Cook has joined as Special Counsel in its Washington, DC office as part of the firm's Communications, Internet, and Technology (CIT) Practice.

Under EPA’s New Source Review (“NSR”) program, an owner or operator must obtain a permit prior to commencing construction of a new major source or a major modification to an existing source. The NSR permitting process can be lengthy, often taking a year or more to complete with complex air dispersion modeling, control technology analyses, agency meetings, public participation, and other attendant requirements.

© 2026 Jenner & Block LLP. Attorney Advertising. Jenner & Block LLP is an Illinois Limited Liability Partnership including professional corporations. This publication, presentation, or event is not intended to provide legal advice but to provide information on legal matters and/or firm news of interest to our clients and colleagues. Readers or attendees should seek specific legal advice before taking any action with respect to matters mentioned in this publication or at this event.

Precious Jacobs-Perry Discusses Chance the Rapper Jury Trial Victory Jenner & Block Partner Precious Jacobs-Perry spoke withBillboard andThe American Lawyer about the firm's precedent-settingjury trial victory for Chancelor J. Bennett, best known as Chance the Rapper, in his breach of contract dispute with hisformer manager Patrick Corcoran.