Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, April 25, 2022 By: Maanvi Singh As the closing bell rings at Jordan high school, a cacophony of adolescent chatter nearly overpowers the mechanical noises that emanate from the metal recycling plant next door. Students hardly register the lustrous dust – laced with lead, chromium and other contaminants – that settles into the […]

Source: https://www.fox29.com/, April 25, 2022 By: Monica Evans A Lehigh Valley Borough is suing nearly 2 dozen companies that make foam used to put out fires because officials in the borough say that the toxic chemicals found in the foam were also found in its water supply. The Borough of Emmaus is alleging that two […]

Source: https://grist.org/, April 25, 2022 By: Yvette Cabrera The state of New Jersey wants two companies accused of polluting the groundwater in a Bergen County borough to answer a question: what’s the value of a glass of clean drinking water? That question was posed in the form of a civil suit filed earlier this month, […]

Source: https://press-herald.com/, April 22, 2022 By: Amber McDown The Department of Environmental Quality was canvasing the Pennsylvania Avenue area on Friday morning distributing notices regarding contaminants detected in the vicinity. Subsurface samples of soil gas were collected recently in a utility right-of-way area near the old Imperial dry cleaning building on the corner of Pennsylvania […]

Source: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/, April 22, 2022 By: Christina Lieffring In Wisconsin, much of the discussions around water quality have been focused on contaminants including lead and PFAS. But George Kraft, UW-Stevens Point emeritus professor and emeritus director of the Center for Watershed Science and Education, says his biggest concerns looking to the future are nitrates and […]

Source: https://www.costar.com/, April 21, 2022 By: Randyl Drummer Commercial property insurance rates are on the rise, spurred in part by billions of dollars in damage from floods and fires linked to climate change, posing economic challenges for some businesses and prompting investors to reassess purchases in areas where risk is increasing. Mounting losses from flooding, […]

Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, April 22, 2022 By: Elana Ashati Jefferson There are industries for which environmental and pollution liability exposures are obvious: Think petroleum refining, storage and transportation or chemical manufacturing and distribution. “Pollution used to be a really niche coverage,” says Michael Padula, head of the U.S. environmental practice at Aspen Insurance Holdings. “But now we’re […]

Source: https://www.crossingbroad.com/, April 19, 2022 By: Anthony SanFilippo Two longtime Philadelphia Flyers athletic trainers, who have worked side-by-side at the team’s training facility in Voorhees, N.J. for the past 18 years, are suing team ownership, among others, after receiving similar medical diagnoses that they allege came from a work environment in which they were unknowingly […]

Source: https://nypost.com/, April 19, 2022 By: Ariel Zilber General Electric should foot the bill for the estimated $22 billion it would cost to rehabilitate a 200-mile-long stretch of the Hudson River due to the company’s decades-long contamination of the New York state waterway, according to an environmental group. Scenic Hudson, the Hudson Valley-based nongovernmental organization, released […]

Source: https://www.theadvocate.com/, April 20, 2022 By: David J. Mitchell Olin Corp. has ended its immediate response efforts to a chlorine leak that had forced residents in Plaquemine to shelter in their homes for about three hours Monday night and closed local roads. Company officials said Wednesday morning that their air monitoring has confirmed “there is […]

Source: https://www.aiacontracts.org/ By: Sara M. Bour, Esq. Offsite construction has numerous benefits. Compared to traditional construction, it can bring efficient practices, new technologies, and increased safety to a project. Another benefit to offsite and modular construction is their reduction in construction and demolition. Environmentally sustainable practices are inherent in many modular delivery systems, typically resulting […]

Source: https://www.aiacontracts.org/, March 31, 2022 By: Jessyca Henderson, Esq. Materials are fundamental to sustainable construction practices, from sourcing to installation to deconstruction and reuse or recycling. In 2016, the AIA released its report, Materials transparency & risk for architects: An introduction to advancing professional ethics while managing professional liability risks, to guide architects in understanding the need […]