Source: https://lapublicpress.org/, July 10, 2024 By: Alfredo Santana Twelve residents of Maywood, all diagnosed with cancer, have filed a class-action lawsuit against a company that sterilizes medical equipment for allegedly leaking, over decades, a toxic carcinogen that, the residents say, has led to a cancer cluster in the small Southeast LA city. The residents are […]

Source: https://pubs.acs.org/, February 29, 2016 By: Elizabeth Wilson Engineers finally capped the massive methane leak in Southern California earlier this month. The leak, at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, had spewed the potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere for more than three months. Now scientists, engineers, and policy-makers are assessing the disaster’s ramifications, […]

Source: https://www.abc27.com/, October 3, 2021 By: Kristine de Leon, Christina Pascucci A massive oil spill off the Southern California coastline has prompted the closure of beachfront areas from the Huntington Beach Pier down to Newport Beach, according to city officials Sunday morning. At least 126,000 gallons (98,420 liters) of oil spilled into the waters off […]

Source: July 9, 2024 By: Josh Landes A mill redevelopment project in Lee, Massachusetts is working to clean up chemical contaminants as it continues its long journey to fruition. The Eagle Mill campus sits on the banks of the Housatonic River in the heart of Lee. The $80 million project to transform the former industrial […]

Source: https://www.financierworldwide.com/, August 2024 The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued final risk management rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) banning certain uses of two chemicals: chrysotile asbestos and methylene chloride. The identity of these two chemicals is less important than the process by which the EPA concluded that the banned uses […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, July 1, 2024 By: Bilal Khattab and Sarah Turpin, K&L Gates LLP The United States (US) has seen an explosion of litigation in recent years relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), referred to by some as “forever chemicals” because they are slow to degrade and can stay in the environment for many […]

Source: https://www.theledger.com/, July 2, 2024 By: Sara-Megan Walsh Lakeland officials have gotten an estimate of what it will cost to clean up the source of the foul odor in Southwest Lakeland. City commissioners unanimously approved spending $947,192 on Monday for Bartow-based A-C-T Environmental and Infrastructure to remove soil contaminated by a wastewater force main break […]

Source: https://www.neimagazine.com/, July 2, 2024 US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers cleaning up the West Lake Landfill in St Louis County detected contamination in nearby groundwater, obliging EPA to investigate whether radium might have migrated from the site, the Missouri Independent reported. St Louis was part of a geographically scattered national effort to build the […]

Source: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/, June 26, 2024 A half-million-dollar house built on the wrong property on the Big Island must be demolished. A judge in Kona has ordered PJ’s Construction to pay for the removal of the home that was supposed to be built on the adjacent lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park. Read more.

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, June 24, 2024 By: Christopher McDonald Recently passed legislation that amends the Virginia Public Procurement Act (VPPA) and changes the laws governing procurement delivery methods will take effect on July 1, 2024. Acts of Assembly Chapter 490 and Chapter 469 establish new transparency measures for procurement and new parameters for the use of Construction Management At […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, June 25, 2024 By: Julie Strupp The way big construction projects get done continues to evolve. Public projects used to happen via traditional design-bid-build, but today, many states and jurisdictions increasingly allow a range of delivery methods, such as construction manager at risk. That flexibility brings benefits — and potential perils — for […]

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/, June 17, 2024 Tougher US federal limits on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” will prompt potentially exposed parties like manufacturers, municipalities and utilities to address liability risks. Complying with the rules and cleaning up contamination could require $300 billion of additional spending by 2040, nearly $200 billion of which may flow to […]