Source: https://www.asce.org/, March 12, 2024 Capital improvement projects can be prohibitively expensive. The government (or public sector) often looks for private investors to help pay for these projects that benefit the public. As of the most recent ASCE Report Card in 2021, the investment gap is nearly $2.59 trillion. This deficiency leads the government to […]

Source: https://www.partnershipsbulletin.com/, March 6, 2024 As with any industry, knowledge is power. The issues are also much deeper than the choppy financing waters we’re all swimming in – it’s down to awareness. As P3s have moved into the era of megaprojects and advanced delivery, many projects are “underinsured – some grossly underinsured – and are […]

Source: https://newschannel9.com/, March 13, 2024 A federal lawsuit alleges that the city of Calhoun, Georgia allowed a company to discharge forever chemicals known as PFAS into the Coosawattee River watershed. As a result, the lawsuit says this has contaminated Gordon County’s drinking water. Read more.

Source: https://truthout.org/, March 12, 2024 By: Zoya Teirstein The United States government said it is immune to 27 lawsuits filed by local and state governments, businesses, and property owners over the military’s role in contaminating the country with deadly PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.” The lawsuits are a small fraction of the thousands of cases […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, March 12, 2024 Federal investigators determining why a Florida condominium tower partially collapsed three years ago, killing 98 people, said Thursday there were many faulty support columns in the tenant garage that ran below it and the adjoining pool deck. Read more.

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, March 8, 2024 By: Zachary Phillips At least two people employed by Big D Builders told the police that they had voiced concerns to the project’s supervisor, and a supervisor for Boise-based Inland Crane, which was working on the project, said he told Durrant the beams “did not look right,” the Idaho Statesman […]

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, March 4, 2024 By: Kerri L. Barsh, Greenberg Traurig, LLP Uptick in Redevelopment of Contaminated Sites – This trend is evident both for impacted sites in general and for those formally in the state of Florida’s (EPA) Brownfields Program, which provides economic and regulatory incentives to encourage voluntary cleanup and redevelopment of commercial and […]

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/, March 1, 2024 Kimberly-Clark has been hit with a proposed class action filed by Connecticut residents living near a facility where it makes Kleenex accusing the consumer goods company of contaminating their properties and drinking water with toxic “forever chemicals.” The lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court on Wednesday alleges the company has used […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/01/texas-farmers-pfas-killed-livestock, March 1, 2024 By: Tom Perkins A Texas county has launched a first-of-its-kind criminal investigation into waste management giant Synagro over PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge it is selling to Texas farmers as a cheap alternative to fertilizer. Two small Texas ranches at the center of that case have also filed a federal lawsuit against Synagro, alleging […]

Source: https://www.redmondspokesman.com/, February 28, 2024 By: Alex Baumhardt Several residents of Boardman in northeast Oregon are suing the Port of Morrow and businesses for contaminating their drinking water, making it a health risk for thousands of people in Morrow and Umatilla counties. Five local residents – Michael Pearson, Michael and Virginia Brandt, and James and […]

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/, February 27, 2024 By: Frank Kummer Polluted water wells, noxious ash cinders, sludge-filled lagoons, and a fouled stream are just parts of four local Superfund sites contaminated during the 20th century that will get new money for cleanups, said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. One site, Roebling, is associated with the family behind […]

Source: https://rcbizjournal.com/, February 26, 2024 Thruway Plaza at 308-330 Route 59 in Nanuet has applied to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program to remediate chlorinated solvents and petroleum products in the groundwater at the site. The likely source of the groundwater pollution was a dry-cleaning facility that operated at the […]