At the centre of Washington state’s sprawling Hanford Site, an enormous engineered landfill is being made larger as one of the United States’ biggest environmental cleanup programmes continues. According to the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF) has been receiving waste since 1996. Over that time, 20 million tons of…

The immediate priority is now completing the city’s development agreement and closing the tower purchase before July 30, 2027. Downtown Dallas is betting that one of its most recognizable towers can have a second act. The developers behind a sweeping $409 million redevelopment of Bank of America Plaza have been given another 10 months to…

The Plymouth Mill began operating in 1937 as a wood and paper products manufacturing facility. Over subsequent decades, industrial operations at the site resulted in hazardous substances being released into groundwater, soil, Welch Creek and the Roanoke River (Image Credit: Domtar) For more than half a century, pollution from a pulp and paper mill has…

Vance defended Trump administration’s controversial $100,000 payment requirement for certain H-1B petitions. US Vice President JD Vance has called the H-1B visa programme “completely broken” and said he would support scrapping it, accusing companies of using the system to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign employees.In a video shared on X, Vance said the programme…