Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com, March 8, 2016 By: Sean P. Murphy Wynn Resorts announced Tuesday that it will halt environmental cleanup work at the site of its planned casino because of continued objections to a state environmental permit by officials in nearby Somerville. Wynn Resorts has spent months removing arsenic, lead, and other pollutants from a portion […]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org, March 10, 2016 By: Alejandro Davila Fragoso Before Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation fracked inside the property of Frederick and Debra Roth, the couple’s groundwater had always been clean. Their water had no visible gases, malodors or off-tastes, according to court documents, and the Roths knew that. Part of the deal was that […]

Source: http://ecowatch.com, February 4, 2016 By: Laurel Peltier The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no widespread impact on drinking water. But if you’ve had your ear to the ground in fracking communities, something didn’t […]

Source: Zurich North America A Construction Manager providing “Value Engineering” services directed Architect to change design of mechanical system from four separate chiller systems to one central chiller plant. After startup, it was determined one plant was not enough to cool entire facility. Project Owners made a Claim against CM for cost overruns. Total loss […]

Source: Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS), March 9, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com OSHA has cited two companies for unsafe wood floor designs that led to its collapse in 2015 and the death of Bary Berthelot, 54. He and three other workers were rebuilding the Jourdan River Steamer restaurant in Kiln, which had been damaged by Hurricane […]

Source: http://freepressstandard.com, March 2, 2016 By: Carol McIntire A three-year study by the University of Cincinnati in Carroll and surrounding counties determined hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has no effect on groundwater in the Utica shale region, is not being released to the public. Dr. Amy Townsend-Small, the lead researcher for the University of Cincinnati Department […]

Source: http://www.timescolonist.com, February 24, 2016 A Quebec court has authorized a class-action suit related to an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease that is believed to have contributed to 14 deaths. The lead plaintiff is Solange Allen, whose husband, Claude Desjardins, died in August 2012 at the age of 64. The class-action filed in Quebec Superior Court […]

Source: http://radio.wpsu.org, February 29, 2016 By: Eleanor Klibanoff When David Rosner was a kid, he’d go into his grandfather’s garage and mix up cans of paint. “I can still remember just sticking a stick in to mix it up and hitting halfway down a solid mass of hard stuff,” said Rosner. “That was lead.” Today, […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, March 7, 2016 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP The tragic water crisis in Flint, Michigan raises grave concerns as to the lurking hazards posed by our nation’s aging infrastructure. There are an estimated six million lead service lines in operation in the United States.  In addition, countless plumbing systems in homes […]

Source: http://www.njspotlight.com, March 7, 2016 By: Jon Hurdle Dispute centers on EPA plan to cap toxic waste with sand after riverbed is dredged A Newark community group is defending the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final plan to clean up the Passaic River, despite criticism by the New Jersey Sierra Club that the plan will fail […]

Source: Detroit Free Press, March 6, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The ripple effects of the city of Flint’s tainted drinking water crisis could eventually prompt water suppliers to spend more than a quarter-trillion dollars on infrastructure upgrades faster than anticipated, a leading rating agency said Friday. Fitch Ratings said in a note that utilities are […]

Source: http://swtimes.com, February 17, 2016 By: Paul Monies, The Oklahoman The Oklahoma Sierra Club filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against three Oklahoma energy companies, accusing them of using saltwater disposal wells that are contributing to the state’s sharp rise in earthquake activity. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Oklahoma City, asks the court to […]