Source: https://www.propublica.org/, January 23, 2022 By: Lulu Ramadan For Michelle Leahy, it started with headaches, inflamed rashes on her arms and legs, and blisters in her mouth. Some students and staff at Sky Valley Education Center, an alternative public school in Monroe, also had strange symptoms: cognitive problems, skin cysts, girls as young as 6 […]

Source: https://madison.com/, January 21, 2022 By: Chris Hubbuch Facing mounting pressure to clean up toxic waste at the Dane County Regional Airport, the county is planning to sue the makers of so-called “forever chemicals.” County Executive Joe Parisi announced Thursday that he would introduce a resolution authorizing the county to hire outside attorneys to pursue […]

Source: https://www.wesa.fm/, January 21, 2022 By: Reid Frazier An electric utility has agreed to pay a $610,000 fine and build new discharge pipelines at two coal ash landfills as part of a settlement with federal and state agencies over water pollution. According to the settlement and a complaint filed in federal court in Pittsburgh by the U.S. Environmental […]

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, January 21, 2022 By: Alec Tyra, Freeman Mathis & Gary PFAS in Construction Materials Per-and-Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a broad class of manmade, highly stable chemicals. PFAS exhibit both grease repelling (lipophobic) and water repelling (hydrophobic) properties due to their unique chemical structure. These unique properties have contributed to the use of […]

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/, January 17, 2022 By: Grace Hase Before shovels break ground to officially kick off construction of the new Vallco Town Center, property owners will have to rid parts of the 50-acre site of chemicals left behind from several dry cleaners and an old automotive center. A cleanup in the form of soil removal […]

Source: https://weartv.com/, January 18, 2022 By: John Rupolo The Gulf Breeze City Council voted in favor of a settlement with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Tuesday night. The city was facing a million dollar fine in connection with the Midway water crisis last year. The DEP said Brown Construction Company, the Midway Water company […]

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/, January 14, 2022 By: Frank Kummer A worker failed to shut off a valve Thursday at the AdvanSix plant in Philadelphia and up to 2,000 gallons of phenol spilled, with some possibly entering the sewer system, according to a police report. The incident occurred at about 4:20 a.m. on the 2500 block of […]

Source: http://indepthnh.org/, January 15, 2022 Community Action Works (formerly Toxics Action Center) and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have settled their federal Clean Water Act lawsuit against Casella Waste Systems, Inc., and North Country Environmental Services, Inc., for the discharge of pollutants from the companies’ Bethlehem Landfill into the Ammonoosuc River. Read more.

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, January 18, 2022 By: Olivia Rangaswami, Taft Stettinius & Hollister On Jan. 10, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will designate PFOA and PFOS as “Superfund hazardous substances.” In designating PFOA and PFOS (collectively “PFAS”) as a “hazardous substance” under […]

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/, January 11, 2022 By: Brian K. Sulliva and Josh Saul Canadian renewable-power company will replace foundations at a New Brunswick wind farm after engineers determined a turbine collapse in October stemmed from design flaws. TransAlta Renewables Inc. said replacing 50 foundations will cost C$75 million to C$100 million ($59 million to $79 million) […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, January 10, 2022 By: Ryan Stanton The demolition of an Ann Arbor dry cleaner to address a longstanding pollution problem in the soil beneath the building is now underway. Armen Cleaners has stood at 630 S. Ashley St. for decades, but officials determined last year the building needs to come down so the state can […]

Source: https://www.constructionbusinessowner.com/, December 17, 2021 By: Maydelis Torres Already expecting a downturn, the commercial construction industry was further impacted when COVID-19 either delayed or shuttered projects nationwide and a seemingly endless barrage of storms caused more than $95 billion in damages across the United States alone. This is on top of the growing array of […]