Source: https://www.clickondetroit.com, June 25, 2019 By: Amber Ainsworth Wayne State University’s Old Main building will be without air conditioning or cooling fans for several days after legionella was discovered in a cooling tower. Legionella is bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease. According to the school, the cooling system is expected to be off for two or […]

Source: https://queenannenews.com, June 24, 2019 By: Brandon Macz Construction of a 93-unit apartment building in Lower Queen Anne is being delayed in order to clean up the site, where a Texaco station once operated and petroleum hydrocarbons were first detected in the 1980s. Vibrant Cities was cleared by the West Design Review Board to seek […]

Source: https://www.southcoasttoday.com, June 25, 2019 By: Jennette Barnes Contaminated soil has been uncovered at new locations in the Bliss Corner neighborhood as part of a state investigation into industrial waste found in the area last year. Tests show four new places on McCabe, East Wordell and Donald Streets where toxic waste exceeds residential standards, plus […]

Source: https://www.constructionexec.com, June 16, 2019 By: Bill Webb, RT Specialty, National Environmental and Construction Professional Practice As the commercial construction industry continues to evolve and grow, design-build methodologies are becoming increasingly popular for their ability to speed completion rates, control costs and produce an overall more efficient process under the guidance of the design-build contractor […]

Source: https://www.juneauempire.com, June 20, 2019 By: Ben Hohenstatt Addressing chemical contamination comes at a price PFAS contamination is a widespread problem in Alaska and the U.S., and addressing it is going to be costly. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of super-resilient, man-made chemicals, which according to the Environmental Protection Agency, are associated with […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, June 19, 2019 By: Scott H. Reisch, Marta Antonina Orpiszewska and REbecca H. Umhofer, Hogean Lovells Introduction Companies operating in the aerospace, defense, and government services (ADG) industry are increasingly being impacted by regulatory scrutiny of a group of man-made materials called per- and poly-fluorinated alkylated substances (PFAS). Beginning in the 1970s, PFAS […]

Source: https://thepublicsradio.org, June 19, 2019 There’s growing concern over a chemical spill into the Farmington River that happened earlier this month. An accident June 9 at Bradley Airport released 50,000 gallons of firefighting foam containing chemicals known as PFAS — and a substantial amount of it made its way from the sewer system into the […]

Source: https://www.csindy.com, June 17, 2019 By: Faith Miller In March, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee asked the Department of Defense for details about funding diverted from other projects to pay for cleanup and testing for PFAS, a toxic group of man-made chemicals used in military firefighting foam. On June 5, the […]

Source: https://www.dispatch.com, June 15, 2019 By: Kevin Stankiewicz A second lawsuit against Mount Carmel Grove City hospital was filed Friday by one of the 16 people who contracted Legionnaires’ disease there. The negligence lawsuit comes a day after Mount Carmel said the disease outbreak originated in the facility’s hot water system and resulted from inadequate disinfection. Anna […]

Source: https://www.govtech.com, June 14, 2019 By: Scott Cousins According to a news release from the Illinois Department of Public Health and IEPA, people who were in the area when the release occurred, or later that evening, may have been exposed to the product. Officials say residents who may have been directly exposed to dust that […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com, June 14, 2019 By: Mark Plumer, Pillsury – Policyhold Pulse Blog Insurers have recently argued that environmental property damage claims for “closure” costs arising out of historic pollution are not covered, because the claimed damages are just “ordinary costs of doing business.” Policyholders should strongly resist denials based on this argument, which is […]

Source: https://www.nationofchange.org, June 14, 2019 By: Jessi Quinn Alperin Proposed legislation would use funds from development on contaminated sites to help offset costs of cleaning tainted drinking water. In response to chemical contamination from a naval station in his district, Representative Todd Stephens, a Pennsylvania House Representative from Montgomery County, is pushing for legislation that […]