Source: https://news.yahoo.com/, July 18, 2023 By: Kevin Spear, Caroline Catherman, Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel The toxic chemical in the drinking water of thousands of Seminole County homes has properties that can seem sinister. 1,4-dioxane turns water into its Trojan Horse. Colorless and smelling mildly sweet, it does that because it is infinitely soluble, or entirely dissolvable […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, July 17, 2023 By: Jacopo Prisco A phenomenon that scientists have called “underground climate change” is deforming the ground beneath cities, a study conducted in Chicago has found. This shifting of land under urban areas could pose a problem for buildings and infrastructure, threatening long-term performance and durability, according to the research. Read […]

Source: https://www.dotmed.com/, July 10, 2023 By: John R. Rischer Architecture firm CannonDesign has found itself the target of an $8 million lawsuit filed by community healthcare provider Nantucket Cottage Hospital, in Massachusetts, which says that the company’s designs for its new facility violated state regulations, endangering its Medicare and Medicaid certification and costing it millions […]

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, July 14, 2023 Residents of an island polluted with PFAS chemicals have filed claims demanding more than $40 million from a western Wisconsin city they say is responsible for the contamination. Municipalities across Wisconsin are grappling with pollution from PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The man-made chemicals are present in a range […]

Source: https://hbr.org/, July 10, 2023 By: Mark Erlich Summary.   Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing. But that view ignores where the […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, July 12, 2023 By: Donna Lu Agricultural pesticides leach far from their original sources into the world’s waterways, according to new research which finds pesticides exceed safe levels in 13,000km of rivers globally. Analysing 92 of the most common agricultural pesticides, scientists have estimated that 710 tonnes of pesticide active ingredients leach into […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, July 14, 2023 Wind and solar projects are on track to account for more than a third of the world’s electricity by 2030, signalling that the energy sector can achieve the change needed to meet global climate goals, a report by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) said on Thursday. Sultan al-Jaber, president of […]

Source: https://wislawjournal.com/, July 13,2023 By: Patrick Hodan and Guy Temple It was billed as “The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America’s drinking water of PFAS.”[1] The authors arranged to travel to Charleston, S.C., for a front-row seat to an epic trial between the City of Stuart, a small community on the east coast […]

Source: https://www.fox29.com/, July 12, 2023 Atlantic City sent all of its firefighters for testing for lead exposure after two firehouses were closed when it was discovered that lead dust was kicked up during recent renovations. Atlantic City’s Fire Chief said cracking and pealing paint at Station #6 and Station #3 had been sanded and scrapped […]

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, July 12, 2023 By: Elle McLogan Widely regarded as one of the most stunning public buildings in recent New York history, the Hunters Point Library came with a luxury price tag of $41.5 million. But weeks after the concrete-and-glass structure opened in Long Island City in 2019, structural flaws were visible. Read more.

Source: https://thecapitolist.com/, July 10, 2023 While most military bases nationwide have a history of toxic environmental contamination, the case of Camp Lejeune stands out because of the severity and extent of the issue. Between 1953 and 1987, as many as one million people living at the military base drank water in which volatile organic compounds […]

Source: https://www.thestate.com/, July 12, 2023 By: Sammy Fretwell and Susan Merriam For years, farmers across South Carolina have used sludge from factories and sewage plants to fertilize the fields where crops grow and cattle graze. Applied to thousands of acres since the 1990s, the sludge is billed as a cheap way to enrich the soil. […]