Source: http://www.grandhaventribune.com, January 23, 2016 By: Andrea Goodell Routine inspection and maintenance activities on a gasoline pipeline at a Holland school hit a snag recently when the excavation pit dug for the repairs filled with groundwater. Wolverine Pipe Line Co. crews pumped the groundwater out of the pit for nearly a month before being told […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, January 22, 2016 By: Jesse Glickstein, Brian Kenyon, John Renneisen, Eric Rothenberg | O’Melveny & Myers LLP With most state legislative sessions in recess and federal legislative action unlikely until after the November 2016 election, it was no surprise that there were only a handful of new developments in the fracking world during […]

Source: http://eastcountymagazine.org, January 22, 2016 esidents in San Diego’s East County have raised fears of spreading Valley Fever spores in their arguments against projects ranging from a sand mine in Lakeside to solar projects in Boulevard and Jacumba.  Now a jury in Northern California has shown just how expensive a verdict might be for a […]

Source: http://gothamist.com, January 22, 2016 By: Jen Carlson In 2013, the Squibb Park Pedestrian Bridge was opened, connecting Brooklyn Heights to Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO. The Park has been vastly developed in the preceding years, with more visitors and foot traffic throughout—while the bridge didn’t save much time, it was a nicer way to […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 22, 2016 By: Brendan J. Lyons Hoosick Falls village officials secretly hired a Glens Falls public relations firm last month to help develop “an overall communications program” as criticism mounted about their decision to not warn residents to stop drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical. The hiring of Behan Communications, which […]

Source: http://woodtv.com, January 21, 2016 The state health department says it can’t confirm if a spike in cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County was related to lead contamination in Flint water — but it can’t rule out the bad water as the cause, either. In a report released Thursday, the Michigan Department of Health […]

Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com, January 21, 2016 By: Naseem S. Miller Florida Hospital Orlando’s water tested positive for the respiratory germ Legionella last week leading the hospital to hire a firm to flush its water system. Hospital officials said that there are currently no confirmed cases of hospital-acquired Legionnaires’ disease. They added that the hospital’s water is […]

Source: http://www.swissre.com Construction work can be dangerous. The OSHA figures show that in 2013, 4,585 workers were killed on the job. That’s 88 deaths per week, or more than 12 deaths per day. The “fatal four” leading causes of worker fatalities in construction are falls, being struck by falling objects, electrocution, and getting caught in […]

Source: https://bangordailynews.com, January 20, 2016 By: Bill Trotter HANCOCK, Maine — Now that the town owns a 150-acre former tannery property off Route 1, local officials are hoping to get federal funds to clean up pollution that accumulated at the site decades ago. The town of Hancock has applied for $400,000 in federal brownfields remediation […]

Source: http://qns.com, December 21, 2015 By: Angela Matua Several assessments of two sites at 29-37 41st Ave. and 29-27 Queens Plaza North in Long Island City uncovered tanks of fuel and soil laced with hazardous concentrations of lead, metals and pesticides, according to a report by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The agency is proposing an expedited cleanup of the sites […]

Source: http://www.inforum.com, December 3, 2015 By: Grace Lyden North Dakota State University may soon request $1.6 million from the state Legislature to cover costs related to the Minard Hall collapse in 2009. The State Board of Higher Education’s budget and finance committee voted unanimously Wednesday in Bismarck to recommend that the full board give NDSU […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, January 15, 2016 By: Scott Levin A spike in Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County has further thrust Flint’s water crisis into the national spotlight. Legionnaires’ has impacted more than 80 people and caused 10 deaths in the Flint area since the city switched its water source to the Flint River in April 2014. A […]