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December 23, 2021

$475M settlement proposed in longest-running US oil spill

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/, December 22, 2021 By: Janet McConnaughey A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional $43 million to settle a federal lawsuit over cleaning up abandoned wells leaking since 2004, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. “This settlement represents an important down payment to […]

December 23, 2021

Developer of 1,396ft NYC megatower on Billionaires’ Row denies the building is faulty in $125 million lawsuit brought by the board over flooding, creaking walls and malfunctioning elevators

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/, December22, 2021 By: James Gordon The developer of 432 Park Avenue, the tallest apartment building in New York City that sits on Billionaires’ Row overlooking Central Park, has responded to a $125 million lawsuit that was filed by the condominium’s board earlier this year. The lawsuit alleged that the building suffered from leaks, flooding, creaking walls […]

December 22, 2021

Aliso Canyon gas leak evidence was stolen from Best Buy parking lot, Halliburton claims

Source: Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ When a ruptured well at Aliso Canyon started spewing toxic chemicals and heat-trapping methane gas — sickening local families and adding to the climate crisis — Southern California Gas Co. turned to another fossil-fuel giant to help stop the bleeding. SoCalGas hired Boots & Coots, […]

December 21, 2021

50 tons of PFAS soil spilled onto highway after Wurtsmith excavation

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, December 18, 2021 By: Garret Ellison Fifty tons of soil contaminated with toxic PFAS chemicals from an excavation site in northern Michigan spilled across the highway and into a roadside ditch last month when a hazardous waste truck crashed on Veterans Day. Federal officials confirmed a heavy truck carrying contaminated dirt from a cleanup […]

December 17, 2021

Two Monsanto Successor Companies Settle with EPA Regarding Pollution Sites

Source: https://lawstreetmedia.com, December 17, 2021 By: Kendall Heebink On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced that Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC, two successors to the Monsanto Company, are set to “complete the cleanup of four former landfills and waste lagoons” located in Illinois as a result of a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Over the […]

December 17, 2021

Alcoa to Clean Up Remaining Surface Contamination at Former East St. Louis Aluminum Plant Under Federal Settlement

Source: https://www.justice.gov/, December 17, 2021 Alcoa Corporation and Howmet Aerospace, successors to Alcoa Incorporated, and the City of East St. Louis, Illinois, will clean up hazardous waste disposal sites surrounding Alcoa’s former aluminum manufacturing plant in East St. Louis to resolve federal liability. The settlement will require the companies to clean up radium, arsenic, chromium, […]

December 17, 2021

Grand jury: After Surfside collapse, require frequent inspections, stricter association rules

Source: Miami Herald, December 16, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ In the wake of the deadly Surfside condo collapse, Miami-Dade County should institute more frequent building recertification inspections, and condo associations should be required to annually certify routine maintenance and building repairs, a grand jury recommended on Wednesday. Those were among the many recommendations issued Wednesday […]

December 15, 2021

The Hidden Defects Lurking in Many Commercial Buildings

Source: https://www.propmodo.com/, December 9, 2021 By: Nick Pipitone Many building owners may have been thinking about construction defects over the summer after the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. The tragic collapse of the Champlain Towers South killed 98 people and set off a frantic search-and-rescue effort amid the rubble and debris that lasted for 14 […]

December 15, 2021

Year in review: top California construction insurance decisions of 2021

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, December 13, 2021 By: Ashley B. Jordan and Kathryn Bayes The construction industry is a key contributor to California’s economy. According to the Associated General Contractors of America, in 2019, the construction sector contributed $118.1 billion of the state’s total gross domestic product. The recently signed federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is […]

December 14, 2021

Sunoco ordered to dredge lake, pay $4M over pipeline spill

Source: https://www.dailylocal.com/, December 6, 2021 Sunoco Pipeline LP will dredge part of a contaminated lake and pay more than $4 million for spilling thousands of gallons of drilling fluids at a popular state park outside in Downingtown, state officials announced Monday in a settlement that will allow construction to resume. Sunoco Pipeline LP will dredge […]

December 14, 2021

Houston Bridge’s Revised Design Adds $300M to Price

Source: https://www.enr.com/, December 1, 2021 By: James Leggate Officials in Texas have settled on plans to replace a flawed design for the new Houston Ship Channel bridge project over safety concerns, with an added build cost of nearly $300 million on top of the original $962 million price. The new design for the 4.1-mile bridge, […]

December 8, 2021

Wisconsin condo building evacuated due to structural defects

Source: https://dailyreporter.com/, December 3, 2021 A six-story condominium building has been evacuated in a Milwaukee suburb after engineers found the structure was in imminent danger of collapsing. Police and firefighters cleared the 48-unit Horizon West condominium building in Waukesha on Thursday night after an engineering report said its structural columns were compromised. Read more.

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