There are four new Senior Principals at Langan Engineering & Environmental Services. They are: Richard Burrow, PE, LEED AP (New Jersey); Gerard Coscia, PE, LSRP (Pittsburgh); Marc Gallagher, PE, LEED AP (New York); and Christopher Lager, PE,
LEED AP (Philadelphia).

Richard Burrow

Richard Burrow leads a group of engineers that specialize in industrial projects ranging from warehouse/distribution centers to mission critical facilities, and commercial projects such as corporate headquarters and ecommerce fulfillment centers in the New York Metro area. A member of NAIOP, he has provided expert engineering testimony for over 15 million SF of warehouse distribution development.

Gerry Coscia

Gerard Coscia is an environmental consultant in the energy field, specializing in the remediation of manufactured gas plant sites. In 2010, he took the lead in opening Langan’s Pittsburgh office, which has grown to 18 professionals supporting exploration and pipeline projects in the Marcellus Shale, as well as numerous high-profile projects in the city itself, such as PNC Tower, demolition engineering of the Civic Arena (the “Igloo”), and game-day traffic and parking consulting for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Marc Gallagher is leading the Langan team engaged on the largest real estate project in the country–Hudson Yards. Although based in New York, he leads challenging geotechnical, civil and environmental projects around the world, including large developments in the United Arab Emirates, major sports facilities in Iraq, and infrastructure projects in Greece.

Chris Hager heads Langan’s Philadelphia office, and is currently the Chair of the Philadelphia Urban Land Institute District Council. Under his leadership, Langan has become a trusted consultant to the design and development community in and around the city, notably on projects like Parx Casino, Race Street Pier, the expansion of Lincoln Financial Field, and Cooper University Cancer Center, as well as multiple assignments at the University of Pennsylvania and on numerous environmentally challenged sites in the region.

Founded in 1970, Langan provides integrated site engineering and environmental consulting services for private developers, property owners, and public sector clients. Langan employs 800 professionals and has regional offices in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, North Dakota, and California. With more than 125 LEED APs, the firm ranks among the top Green Design Firms by Engineering News-Record and has consistently ranked among the Best Engineering Firms to Work For by CE News

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Canada geese taking a bite out of Jersey/Pennsy farms

Canada geese taking a bite out of local farms – Akira Suwa (Inquirer)

Farmers call them “flying rats” or “deer with wings.”

They gather by the tens of thousands every year about this time to graze on sprouting winter wheat, rye, alfalfa, and barley. 

They’re voracious, persistent, and dirty, leaving behind a trail of droppings. 

Canada geese. 

“You see a couple, then 10, 50, 100, 300,” said farmer Ray Hlubik, 61, of Chesterfield, Burlington County. Soon, like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, “they cover a whole field. 

“They decimated my alfalfa last year,” Hlubik said. And in the early spring, “they pulled the tops off my sweet corn.”

That’s how Philadelphia Inquirer writer Edward Colimore sets up his story about the “foul problems in New Jersey and Pennsylvania cost farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in lost produce and force the replanting of geese-ravaged fields.”

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Legislation to allow small, controlled fires in state forests (to prevent larger ones), establish fishing licenses for the taking of Menhaden, set carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide air quality standards for ice arenas, and require state buildings to be topped with green or blue roofs are among nine environmental bills up for debate Monday at 2 p.m. in Assembly committees.

Here’s the lineup.

ASSEMBLY AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Farmland in rural Steuben County, New York (Wikipedia)

Environmental groups and a New York village will be in court Monday arguing over the sale of water to a Shell Oil Company subsidiary for shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press‘s Mary Esch reports.

The Sierra Club and People for a Healthy Environment won a court injunction in March 2013 stopping the Finger Lakes village of Painted Post from further water shipments under a 2012 contract with SWEPI LP, a Shell subsidiary drilling gas wells in Pennsylvania.

The five-year contract called for up to a million gallons of water per day shipped by rail, and Painted Post officials anticipated earning up to $2.5 million a year on the deal.

But a trial judge ruled that Painted Post officials improperly conducted the project’s environmental impact review and halted the sales, a decision the New York State Conference of Mayors says could endanger thousands of water-sale contracts that help financially struggling towns in New York.

A state appeals court in Rochester will hear arguments Monday in the appeal by the village and SWEPI. 

Read the full story here

Related environmental news stories:
Visualization: Water for Fracking in Ten Texas Counties – Texas Tribune
Group hears about fracking water needs – Fort Morgan Times
Exxon CEO Joins Suit Citing Fracking Concerns – Wall Street Journal
How to Save Water on Fracking – Bloomberg
Trading water for fuel is fracking crazy – rabble.ca (blog)

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Little fracking concern in some Pa towns without zoning