Company: BCHT
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001477932-25-005905
Chunk: 74

Company: Birchtech Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 74
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In April 2024, the EPA under the Biden Administration issued the first-ever national, enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), also known as “forever chemicals”.  The Rule established legally enforceable levels, called Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs), for six PFAS in drinking water: PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, and HFPO-DA as contaminants with individual MCLs, and PFAS mixtures containing at least two or more of PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA, and PFBS using a Hazard Index MCL to account for the combined and co-occurring levels of these PFAS in drinking water.  Under the Rule, public water systems must monitor these PFAS and will have three years to complete initial monitoring (by 2027), followed by ongoing compliance monitoring.  Water systems must also provide the public with information on the levels of these PFAS in their drinking water beginning in 2027.  

In July 2024, we commenced three additional patent infringement lawsuits in U.S. District Courts in Arizona, Iowa and Missouri against multiple utilities and related entities.  These actions allege willful infringement of our patents related to mercury emissions control.  In October 2024, we entered into an agreement with one of the utility defendants and an affiliated entity in the Arizona action, and in January 2025, we entered into an agreement with another utility named in the Arizona action. Such agreements provide such parties and their affiliates with a non-exclusive license to certain Company patents related to our two-part Sorbent Enhancement Additive (SEA®) process for use in connection with a certain designated coal-fired power plant operated by them. The agreements include one-time license fees which have been received by us.  One agreement provides us with a right of first refusal for certain of such utility’s product supply for mercury emissions capture at such designated power plant and the other agreement provides us with the right to be included in such party’s bidding process for certain product supply for mercury emissions capture at such party’s designated power plant. 

On December 17, 2024, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered the consolidation of the three lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa for coordinated pretrial proceedings. In January 2025, we initiated an additional infringement suit in the Western District of Missouri against several