Source: https://berkleycp.com 1. Stay Focused Seek projects that are a fit with your experience and expertise. Take on projects for which you have adequate capacity of leadership and staff.\ Work with owners that you know and trust to have the capability to implement the project type in the location where it will be built. Partner […]

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, July 20, 2025 By: Tom Ignudo A tanker truck spilled about 800 gallons of fuel at a Wawa in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Sunday, according to the fire department. The spill happened at the Wawa at 418 West Rio Grande Avenue. The Wildwood Fire Department said some streets near Wawa were closed as […]

Source: https://www.enr.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Emell D. Adolphus & Jonathan Keller The launch of the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda had a rocky start as its sweeping tariff announcements tanked stock markets worldwide. Although the full scope of tariffs has since been paused, ripples of economic uncertainty have remained and roiled the design market, […]

Source: https://www.berkleydp.com/, July 2025 A Project Management Information System (PMIS) is intended to facilitate and expedite project team communication and promote timely  sharing and review of project documents. Members of the project team (owner, architects, engineers, other design consultants, general contractor/CM, subcontractors, and suppliers) are granted access to and permissions within the PMIS based on […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Tom Perkins The state of New Mexico is suing the US air force over its refusal to comply with orders to address extremely high levels of Pfas pollution stemming from its base, which has tainted drinking water for tens of thousands of people, damaged crops and poisoned dairy cows. Though the […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, July 11, 2025 By: Andrew P. Van Osselaer, Storm Lineberger and Reese Letourneau, Haynes Boone Too often, concerns over environmental contamination impede negotiations in business transactions — especially those involving commercial property. These environmental risks can take many forms: known or potentially unknown on-site contamination, liability for off-site contamination (e.g., through waste disposal […]

Source: https://eponline.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Stasia DeMarco The EPA has settled with Gateway Energy Storage, LLC, to conduct a full environmental cleanup following a lithium-ion battery fire at the company’s energy storage facility in San Diego. The fire, which began on May 15, 2024, involved 14,800 nickel-manganese-cobalt lithium-ion batteries. It continued to flare intermittently […]

Source: https://thebedfordcitizen.org/, July 11, 2025 By: Jenny Stewart Representatives from the Navy, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), joined a scant audience for a hybrid meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) on July 8. The representatives, under the direction of newly appointed Navy Remedial Project […]

Source: https://www.bbc.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Michelle Fleury & Nathalie Jimenez When Beverly Morris retired in 2016, she thought she had found her dream home – a peaceful stretch of rural Georgia, surrounded by trees and quiet. Today, it’s anything but. Just 400 yards (366m) from her front porch in Mansfield, Georgia, sits a large, […]

Source: https://www.waterworld.com/, July 8, 2025 SL Environmental Law Group announced on June 18, 2025, that funds from the 3M and DuPont water settlements – the largest of their kind in U.S. history according to the group – are now being released to relieve water providers of some of the financial burden of removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com/, July 8m 2025 By: Brendan J. Lyons DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls, where the drinking water had been contaminated for decades by factories that used manufacturing chemicals produced by the […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Matthew Thibault The California Legislature has rolled back provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to spur housing construction and cut red tape for other types of projects, according to a June 30 news release from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed the legislation the same day. The rollbacks, […]