Source: https://www.startribune.com/, May 13, 2025 By: Brooks Johnson 3M will pay the state of New Jersey up to $450 million through the next 25 years to settle claims of PFAS contamination. The Maplewood-based manufacturer sold the “forever chemicals” to the DuPont Chambers Works facility in the Garden State for many years. Chemours, a spinoff of […]

Source: https://dnyuz.com/, May 9, 2025 New soil testing by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found high levels of lead and other toxic metals at homes destroyed by January’s catastrophic wildfires and cleared by federal cleanup crews. The county health department hired Roux Associates Inc. to conduct soil sampling at 30 homesites […]

Source: https://fox4kc.com/, May 7, 2025 By: Delaney Eyermann A construction worker who who survived the deadly Clay County bridge collapse in 2022 is suing the county and two companies he says are responsible for the tragedy. Kaden Bax is suing Clay County, Crockett Engineering Consultants, LLC and WSP USA, Inc for the deadly bridge collapse on Oct. […]

Source: https://azbigmedia.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Gary Nelson The combination of real estate properties and construction sites generates substantial investments, involving multiple participants, and requires an extensive operational scale and complex legal systems. Such developmental projects produce significant financial gains and support urban progress, although they expose stakeholders to fundamental risk exposures that threaten schedule […]

Source: https://www.barrietoday.com/, May 6, 2024 By: Bob Bruton Barrie’s two major transit developments face higher costs due to an unanticipated, additional amount of contaminated soil, extended archaeological monitoring and investigations, and the complex requirements of working adjacent to a Metrolinx rail corridor. Affected are the Allandale and Downtown Transit Mobility Hubs, and Allandale Historic Train […]

Source: https://www.thestate.com/, May 6, 2025 By: Morgan Hughes and Sammy Fretwell Richland County is being ordered to pay up to $3 million for violating state pollution rules at the under-construction Scout Motors site north of Columbia. State regulators have documented numerous instances of sediment and storm water being improperly managed, leading to pollution of the […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, May 7, 2025 By: Jack Brook Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. Upwards of 79,000 gallons (299,047 liters) of “oily water mixture” have been recovered near Garden Island Bay […]

Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/, April 17 2025 By: Grist, Lylla Younes, and Naveena Sadasivam By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Their daughter was enrolled in one of the best elementary schools in the county, but because the family […]

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Lauren Edmonds 432 Park Avenue, the narrow 1,396-foot-tall residential skyscraper on New York City’s Billionaires’ Row, was advertised as an architectural marvel when tenants first moved in nearly a decade ago. Now those tenants say the luxury tower is beset by cracks, leaks, elevator malfunctions, and relentless noise. Read more.

Source: https://georgiarecorder.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Stanley Dunlap Agriculture is Georgia’s top industry, and broilers are the state’s top farm product. But the mess that large-scale poultry farming causes can create tensions between residents and corporate owners. And that is playing out in a northeast Georgia community, where a proposed poultry rendering plant has residents […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Gavin Souter Risk managers should consider their organization’s corporate culture and stance on environmental risks as they deal with various pollution exposures and distinct regulatory environments, an environmental insurance expert said. Insurance coverage is available for various exposures, but buyers should ensure they provide underwriters with as much data […]

Source: https://www.kcur.org/, May 5, 2025 By: Meg Britton-Mehlisch A chemical plume of trichloroethylene, or TCE, was discovered in the 1990s and traced back to an airplane manufacturing plant in east Wichita. A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane […]