Source: https://learn.aiacontracts.com/, April 15, 2023 Risks associated with environmental pollution are often overlooked and only considered after they occur. But the reality is that any project can cause a pollution event. Project owners bear ultimate responsibility for any contamination and should consider these five perils before starting a project: Read more.

Source: https://learn.aiacontracts.com/, April 7, 2023 Projects that utilize modular construction, i.e., offsite construction of modules that are later transported onsite for assembly and installation, have many sustainable benefits. When compared to traditional stick-built projects, modular construction can bring efficient practices while simultaneously reducing impacts to the project site, as well as the surrounding area. In […]

Source: https://www.ksbw.com/, April 17, 2023 By: Josh Copitch A Central Coast company has agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle an environmental protentional lawsuit brought by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. According to the DA’s office, Granite Rock was accused of allowing stormwater runoff contaminated with heavy metals and high […]

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/, April 14, 2023 By: Mike Lindblom and Ellen Banner For a couple of years already, Interstate 90 travelers have seen construction workers toil in the former express lanes, striving to repair flawed track supports along Sound Transit’s future light-rail extension. But after futile attempts to adjust, jackhammer or patch these pieces like a dentist filling teeth, […]

Source: https://www.timesnewspapers.com/, April 14, 2023 By: Colin Suchland Demolition of a bridge spanning Deer Creek has incited the ire of watchful Webster Groves residents and resulted in violations from state authorities over foam-plastic pollution in the waterway. Beginning in early March, a contractor working for the city of Brentwood, KCI Construction, began removing the bridge […]

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/, April 14, 2023 By: Aria Bendix and David K. Li A plastics fire in Indiana spewed various toxic chemicals into the air, including hydrogen cyanide and benzene, according to test results from the Environmental Protection Agency. Officials said Friday that air monitors detected hydrogen cyanide, benzene, chlorine, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds in the […]

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, April 10, 2023 By: Chris Hoffman A tractor-trailer overturned in Lincoln Borough, leaking chemicals and diesel fuel into a nearby creek on Monday. For a better part of the afternoon, crews were getting 55-gallon drum barrels out of the creek along Bellbridge Road in Lincoln and making sure none of the chemicals in […]

Source: https://www.wskg.org/, April 12, 2023 By: David Sommerstein A national environmental not-for-profit is suing a Jefferson County dairy farm, claiming its manure is polluting the St. Lawrence River. The owner of Wood Farms says the lawsuit is meritless, and the state Department of Environmental Conservation appears to be on the farmer’s side. Read more.

Source: https://www.sevendaysvt.com/, April 11, 2023 By: Alison Novak As Vermont lawmakers debate the fate of an ambitious, first-in-the-nation program to test hundreds of schools for PCBs, another community is dealing with the fallout from finding elevated levels of the chemicals in parts of its school. Read more.

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/, April 11, 2023 By: Aleks Phillips A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of soil contaminated with toxic chemicals from the train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio crashed on Monday evening while en route to a disposal site. In a statement, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that roughly half of the tractor-trailer’s load […]

Source: https://wpln.org/, April 12, 2023 By: Caroline Eggers Two hours south of Nashville, black mold is spreading. Playground swings look gunky. Road signs are unreadable. Trees are dying.  This is the scene unfolding in Mulberry, a small town in Lincoln County that borders the sprawling Jack Daniel’s whiskey operation — the food source for an […]

Source: https://omaha.com/, April 11, 2023 By: Lori Pilger The State of Nebraska is suing a Lincoln company it had a contract with for architectural and engineering services on a 25,000-square-foot addition to the Eastern Nebraska Veterans’ Home in Bellevue. In a lawsuit filed this week in Lincoln, Assistant Nebraska Attorney General Erik Fern said the […]