Electrical contractor Power Design, general contractor John Moriarty & Associates and other firms agree to $3.45M pact that includes restitution for wages and benefits the city claimed were not provided to 1,200 workers, and civil penalties.
A Michigan court judge granted final approval of the mostly state-funded settlement with many young plaintiffs in tainted water case, but two engineering firms are not part of the agreement.
Using a modified method, Shimmick’s Legacy Foundations restarted work on the troubled perimeter pile upgrade of the ailing Millennium Tower in San Francisco.
State reached agreement to pay homeowners and businesses for lead-tainted water but its lawsuits against consultants that advised the city will continue.
Three groups of U.K. construction workers have secured compensation for losses caused by an unlawful blacklist used by leading contractors for years, starting in the mid-1990s (ENR 10/19/15 p. 7).
An infusion of funds through a federally negotiated settlement with Greenville, S.C.-based AVX Corp., if approved by a federal court, will slash the cleanup schedule for the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site in Massachusetts, officials say.
In a settlement with federal agencies, AVX Corp. has agreed to pay more than $366 million, an infusion that officials say will dramatically speed up the long-running cleanup of the PCB-contaminated New Bedford, Mass., harbor.