Source: https://www.reuters.com/, March 27, 2026 By: Marleen Kaesebier Fast growth in data centre construction is pushing up insurance demand ​and risks for the sector, a report published by ‌Swiss Re(SRENH.S), opens new tab on Friday said. Global insurance premiums linked to data centres are expected to rise to $24.2 billion by 2030 from an estimated $10.6 […]

Source: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/, March 29, 2026 Toxins more than 100 years old found near Brighton High School are halting work on a nearly $22 million district capital project. Brighton CSD says contractors working to build new athletic fields at the high school discovered ash and cinders in the soil in January. The state Department of Environmental […]

Source: https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/, March 31, 2026 By: Alex Baumhardt Tech giant Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle with northeast Oregonians living with contaminated groundwater in exchange for no admission of guilt in the polluting. Amazon is one of 17 total defendants, including 10 previously unnamed ones, in Pearson v. Port of Morrow, a lawsuit filed in […]

Source: https://www.westword.com/, April 1, 2026 By: Thomas Mitchell The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance made a splash last May with a “brand-new, state-of-the-art habitat” for sea lions, including a sixteen-foot viewing window, salt water pools and advanced filtration system. Less than one year later, that same exhibit has dealt with multiple leaks and cracked areas, rusty cages and hardware, […]

Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/, March 30, 2026 The vast data centres that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, March 24, 2026 By: Caroline Claire Turtle, Wilson Elser A roofer for a sixty-five-townhome community is notified that the homeowners association of the townhome community has filed a claim alleging construction defects and resulting property damage related to the roofer’s scope of work. In the period between completion of the roofing work and the commencement […]

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, March 27, 2026 By: Sompo The scale of construction projects across North America has reached unprecedented levels. Data centers that once felt massive at $1.5 to $2 billion are now eclipsed by $30 billion mega projects, while industry professionals casually label $12 to $15 billion builds as “mini-megas”. Alongside this data center boom, […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, March 24, 2026 By: Matthew Lerner The acceleration in data center construction has drawn a robust response from the insurance sector, which is deploying billions in new insurance capacity, consolidating coverage for ease of administration to support ever-larger projects and establishing products and services directly targeting the sector. With the rapidly expanding use […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, March 26, 2026 By: Tez Romero Athens Services, a Southern California waste hauler, is suing AIG over denied pollution liability coverage and a PFAS exclusion it says should never have applied. The lawsuit, filed on March 24, 2026, in the US District Court for the Central District of California, accuses AIG Specialty Insurance Company of […]

Source: https://ehsleaders.org/, March 25, 2026 By: Lisa Whitley Coleman $668 million. That’s the price tag attached to a recent environmental enforcement settlement involving contamination in Seattle’s Lower Duwamish Waterway, and it offers a costly reminder of one of the most misunderstood environmental laws affecting U.S. businesses. In March 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) […]

Source: https://www.irmi.com/, February 13, 2026 By: Bret Bush While the data center concept first took shape in the 1950s and 1960s, the growing number of large-scale data center construction projects currently underway across the US today are helping fuel the national economy. As more general contractors undertake these massive builds amid intense competition and pressure […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, March 17, 2026 By: Camille Joyce Lisay A US federal appeals court has ruled that regulatory permits allowing emissions do not override pollution exclusions in insurance policies, concluding that an insurer had no duty to defend claims tied to long-term hazardous emissions. In a decision issued by the United States Court of Appeals […]