Source: https://www.northjersey.com, April 9, 2019 By: Scott Fallon Environmental officials have ordered a state agency to curb elevated levels of a noxious gas wafting from the last operating landfill in the Meadowlands after already citing the agency for allowing sewage to be dumped there. (Video is below.) This time, however, the culprit doesn’t appear to be wastewater. Instead, it’s likely […]

Source: https://www.miamiherald.com, April 7, 2019 By: Lindsey Thurswell Lehr and Susan C. Odess Every South Florida construction boom brings with it a rise in defect claims by condominium associations against their buildings’ developers, builders and design professionals. The current wave of development has been no different, except that due to the proximity of new condo […]

Source: https://www.troyrecord.com, April 4, 2019 By: Michael Gwizdala According to Town of Nassau Supervisor David Fleming, the United States Environmental Protection Agency informed him a site on Route 203 tested positive for significant contamination and is believed to be connected to the Dewey Loeffel operations. The contamination is nearly 5.5 miles from the federal Dewey […]

Source: https://www.nhregister.com, April 7, 2019 By: Mark Zaretsky A major, mixed-use development project to put 10 buildings with 205 residential units on the former site of Atlantic Wire is up in the air again, with a new lawsuit the property owner has failed to do required environmental cleanup. The developer of the Atlantic Wharf project, […]

Source: https://www.al.com, April 4, 2019 By: Dennis Pillion The West Morgan East Lawrence Water and Sewer Authority and chemical giant 3M are finalizing a settlement in a lawsuit over who will pay for a new multi-million dollar filtration system to remove industrial contaminants from the drinking water of thousands of people in north Alabama. The […]

Source: https://www.popsci.com, April 4, 2019 By: Alex Schwartz The effects of agricultural practices on human health shouldn’t be overlooked. Lend your “ears” to this: A new study published this week in Nature found that America’s corn belt could contribute to thousands of air pollution deaths a year. Scientists at the University of Minnesota attributed around 4,300 premature American deaths […]

Source: https://nypost.com, April 3, 2019 By: Priscilla DeGregory and Tamar Lapin Forget Pisa — New York has the leaning tower of South Street. A brand-new, 58-story condo in the Financial District is listing north like a drunken investment banker due to a faulty foundation — a defect that could cause bits of the tower to […]

Source: https://www.kpbs.org, April 2, 2019 By: Brad Racino, Bella Ross and Lauren Mapp, inewsource County officials are investigating odors that led San Diego State University to close a building on campus after faculty, students and others complained they were sick with sore throats, itchy eyes, nausea, headaches and nosebleeds. The odors arose from a chemical […]

Source: https://commercialobserver.com, April 2, 2019 By: Rebecca Baird-Remba Pizzarotti says it can’t finish the building at 161 Maiden Lane due to off-kilter foundation A Financial District condominium tower is leaning, and the contractor on the project claims the developer is to blame. The 670-foot-tall, 58-story apartment building under construction at 161 Maiden Lane is leaning three inches […]

Source: Houston Chronicle, April 2, 2019 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Fifteen days after a fire at a Deer Park chemical facility, another fire at a chemical incident is belching black smoke into the air again. The KMCO facility in Crosby caught fire Tuesday. The facility lies a little more than two and half miles from the […]

Source: https://www.chron.com, April 2, 2019 By: Julian Gill and Jasper Scherer One person has died and two people were injured  in a fire Tuesday morning  at KMCO chemical plant in Crosby, authorities said. Several authorities including Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez and Harris County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Gary Hendry confirmed the death. Two people were […]

Source: AXA XL Environmental To achieve the completion date on a school project, the GC accelerated its schedule, allowing the drywall contractor to start before the building envelope was completed. Rain damaged a majority of the installed drywall as well as the materials stored on site. This resulted in $2 million in repair costs and […]