The issue of emerging contaminants in our drinking water is a fascinating and relatively new area of environmental law. This CLE course will begin with a focus on efforts to protect our supplies of drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act, a federal statute regulated many, but not all, of these contaminants. In fact, there is an entirely unregulated segment called emerging contaminants. Presented by New York environmental attorneys James Rigano, Nicholas Rigano and Alyse Delle Fave, the CLE course will explain how these emerging contaminants pose a grave risk to the safety and quality of drinking supplies across the country. The course will provide information on the health risks involved as well as the complex process by which a new contaminant becomes a regulated contaminant, state regulation of contaminants, the routes of exposure, litigation history, treatment methods and the related costs of 1,4-dioxane and PFOS/PFOA, two of the most prominent emerging contaminants.