Source: https://www.wect.com/, May 27, 2022 By: Michael Praats Nearly five years ago residents relying on drinking water from the Cape Fear River learned about the pollution of the river with the chemical known as GenX. The revelation spurred lawsuits, federal intervention, and anger from those impacted by the pollution; but so far, polluters have largely avoided paying […]

Source: https://www.stateaginsights.com/, May 27, 2022 On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.”  As a first step, the CA AG issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil, “a major source of global plastic pollution, seeking information […]

Source: https://www.kxnet.com/, May 26, 2022 By: Kyara Brown Since fracking made oil deposits more accessible, it’s no secret that some environmental damage could lie ahead. KX News journeyed to a warehouse in Williston where large amounts of the radioactive material have been abandoned. North Dakota’s Department of Environmental Quality has acted against Sea Pacific International […]

Source: https://6abc.com/, May 25, 2022 By: Jared Kofsky The proposed settlement reached nearly a year after the catastrophic Surfside building collapse along the South Florida coast now exceeds the billion-dollar mark, attorneys said Tuesday. During a court hearing in Miami Tuesday morning, attorney Harley Tropin announced the settlement reached for families who lost loved ones in the […]

Source: https://www.davisvanguard.org/, May 22, 2022 By: Emily Andrews In late 2021, a project’s re-development of 141 West Avenue 34––an apartment building in Lincoln Heights Los Angeles––brought back a forgotten case of a company’s toxic chemical dump in 1984. According to the Los Angeles Times, in the original 1984 case, investigators who searched underneath the Lincoln Heights […]

Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, May 19, 2022 By: Gene Nosovitch The environmental liability insurance market is experiencing significant growth due to several convergent factors impacting the supply chain and construction sector. Passage of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act in November 2021 has cleared the way for a construction boom fueled by a $1 trillion investment in the United States’ critical infrastructure. Many […]

Source: https://www.al.com/, May 18, 2022 By: Dennis Pillion The Drummond Company has agreed to clean up an abandoned mine site west of Birmingham that environmental groups allege has been discharging acidic mining waste into the river since the mine closed decades ago. Drummond will also pay $3.65 million toward the plaintiff’s legal fees and supplemental […]

Source: https://www.sfgate.com/, May 17, 2022 By: Andrew Chamings The seemingly unending saga of San Francisco’s lopsided luxury skyscraper, the Millennium Tower, may have hit another wall this week, literally. An underground shoring wall buried deep in the SoMa soil is threatening to hinder the $100 million dollar effort to right the sinking property, marking the […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com/, May 12, 2022 By: Kenneth C. Crowe, II Crews are working in South Troy north of the Menands Bridge on a $35 million, multiyear project to clean up polluted soil on the property of the long-closed Troy Water Street Manufactured Gas Plant, state and city officials said. “We’ve been trying for a long […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, May 12, 2022 By: Julie Strupp Biden administration officials said in a press call Tuesday they will tweak the federal review process for environmental permits in an effort to speed up infrastructure construction. As part of the initiative, the White House released a permitting action plan Wednesday that lays out priorities and directives but does […]

Source: https://www.malheurenterprise.com/, May 8, 2022 By: Alex Baumhardt, Cole Sinanian and Jael Calloway Guadalupe Martinez points to a 24-pack of bottled water by her kitchen sink with just a few bottles left, one of thousands she’s brought home over the last 18 years. “Ever since we’ve been living here, we’ve been buying water,” she said. […]

Source: AXA XL Data centers Data centers have become “mission critical” components within the world economy. With more individuals working  remotely, and their subsequent reliance on the “cloud”, along with the seemingly infinite demand for storage space  and processing power, the rate of new data center construction projects has grown steadily. It is estimated that […]