The City Council is advancing legislation to require landlords to test more frequently for Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, after the deadly outbreak in Harlem this summer.

The City Council approved legislation Thursday to ramp up testing requirements of building cooling towers for Legionnaires’ Disease, after an outbreak in Harlem over the summer sickened 114 people, ...

Researchers with the CDC detected Legionella bacteria in a majority of cooling towers tested during a new study, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Legionella bacteria can cause a ...

When specifying cooling equipment, engineers are faced with myriad decisions affecting performance and layout. One critical consideration is the noise emitted. As population density rises in major ...

City health officials are calming concerns over a Legionnaires' outbreak in the South Bronx after two cooling towers tested positive for the bacteria. The water cooling towers are at Lincoln Hospital ...

A novel technology that is surprisingly simple in principle promises to significantly reduce water consumption in evaporative cooling tower systems by capturing water from cooling tower plumes.

Five more cooling towers in the Bronx have tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease amid an outbreak that has killed 10 people and sickened more than 100. One of the cooling ...