Source: https://www.audacy.com/, July 6, 2026 By: Kristen Johanson The families of three long-time Philadelphia police officers who died from brain cancer are suing the owner of the building where they worked. They claim the officers got sick from highly toxic chemicals at the Frankford Arsenal. Just last month, former narcotics officer Joe Cooney died of […]

Source: https://news.ssbcrack.com/, July 5, 2026 The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities (BOPU) has traced a discharge that introduced the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii into the city’s wastewater treatment system back to Goat Systems LLC, a contractor for Meta’s data center campus under construction in the High Plains Business Park. Frank Strong, the engineering and water resource […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/. July 6, 2026 By: Andrew G. Simpson The New York City Health Department is investigating a cluster of 18 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in the Upper East Side neighborhoods of Carnegie Hill and Yorkville. The city reports there have been no deaths associated with this cluster. Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia. […]

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, June 30, 2026 By: Alexandra Simon, Kerri Corrado Shelter-in-place and evacuation orders have been lifted after a train derailment in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The train was traveling east when about 16 train cars derailed, Bensalem Public Safety Director Bill McVey said during a press conference. The train had a total […]

Source: https://www.chemistryworld.com/,June 30. 2026 By:James Urquhart Painted surfaces in the built environment will likely pose a delayed environmental risk from harmful per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) decades down the line, according to a new study. The researchers showed that painted surfaces act like a long-lived reservoir, gradually releasing PFAS into the environment across their lifetime, […]

Source: https://www.wpr.org/, June 25, 2026 By: Danielle Kaeding The Wisconsin Department of Justice announced a $275,000 settlement Thursday with energy firm Enbridge in a 2019 spill in Jefferson County. The state alleged Enbridge violated the spills law by failing to report a release from a faulty valve that occurred on its Line 13 pipeline in Fort Atkinson […]

Source: https://www.berkleysp.com/, June 2026 A Practical Guide for Navigating Financial-Loss Exposures in Manufacturing Manufacturers operate in a world where even small deviations (such as an out-of-tolerance component, an ambiguous drawing, a mislabeled control panel) can trigger meaningful financial loss for their customers. These claims arise when a product does not perform as expected, causing costly […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 16, 2026 By: Chad Hemenway Complicated risks are presented with the proliferation of data centers across the U.S. to bolster critical infrastructure for artificial intelligence. A new report from AM Best outlines “substantial insurance demand” evolving for the warehouse-sized facilities of computer servers. “With the number and size of AI data centers growing rapidly, […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 18, 2026 By: Martha Pskowski An old oil well sprang back to life under the parking lot of the First Baptist Church of Grandfalls in April. Over the next eight days, more than 1.5 million gallons of toxic wastewater flowed out of the earth, according to state records. The state regulator, the […]

Source: https://berkleycp.com/, June 2, 2026 By: Courtney Preston If you’re an insurance broker working with construction clients, you’ve probably heard the buzz around Integrated Project Delivery, or IPD. But what exactly is it, and why does it matter for insurance? What is IPD? IPD is a project delivery method that flips the script on traditional […]

Source: https://www.goldbergsegalla.com/, June 11, 2026 By: Oliver E. Twaddell As we recently reported here and here, the Environmental Protection Agency has stated it is revisiting and rolling back some of its limits on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. The prior regulations set by the EPA included the following: A Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) of […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, June 8, 2026 Data center projects are moving faster than traditional construction methods were designed to support. As AI adoption accelerates demand for computing capacity, owners and developers are under pressure to bring facilities online faster. At the same time, projects are becoming larger and more complex, with greater power requirements, tighter coordination […]