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| 09/09/10 | Focus Shifts From Oil Spill Response To Causes and Operational Reforms Three separate reports point to inadequate regulation, technical failures and the lack of response technologies in relation to the deepwater Horizon disaster. |
| 09/08/10 | Contractor Cuts Schedule by Decade on Super-Fast Superlevee The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its contractors are setting a record for achieving the fastest gain in consolidation and strength on earthen levees by using an intricate design that layers a sand blanket, geotextile fabrics, rock and wick drains to evacuate moisture from marshy soils. |
| 09/08/10 | Codes Credited with Minimizing New Zealand Quake Damage Seismic experts credit the development and enforcement of seismic provisions of national building codes with dramatically reducing the impact of the most damaging earthquake to hit New Zealand in nearly 70 years. |
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09/08/10 Treatment-Facility Work, Cleanups Bolster Sector09/08/10 Allen Says BP Rig No Longer a Threat, Feds Probing Mariner Energy Blast
09/07/10 Major Buildings Show Little Damage After New Zealand's Magnitude 7.1 Temblor
09/01/10 Surge Busters Delivering in New Orleans
08/25/10 EPA Delays Until October New Powerplant Smog Rules
08/25/10 DOE Seeks New Sites To Store FutureGen 2.0 Emissions
08/18/10 S. Florida Water Management District Commits to Land Deal, Not Reservoir
08/11/10 Gulf Coast Cleanup Employs Multiple Tools and Techniques
08/11/10 DOE Scraps FutureGen Project For Retrofit CO2-Capture Plan
07/28/10 Running On Empty
07/28/10 Congress Approves Funds For Work in Haiti and Afghanistan
07/28/10 With Cap Holding, Crews Prep Attempt to Kill Spewing Well
07/21/10 Well Cap Is Holding for Now As Final Kill Is Planned
07/21/10 Major Land Acquisition Adds To Everglades Restoration Program
07/20/10 Gulf Oil Well Cap Holds, Despite Leaks
07/14/10 Finally, BP Advances Effort To Stop Leak
07/14/10 U.S. Interior Dept. Proposes New 'Narrower' Drilling Rules
07/14/10 EPA Proposes New Limits On Powerplant Emissions
07/08/10 EPA Proposes New Limits On Powerplant Emissions
07/07/10 Israeli Firm To Double China Desalination Plant’s Capacity
07/07/10 On the Land Side, Venice Flood Protection Shored by Sheet Piles
07/02/10 Latest Estimate of Oil Spread Says Spill Likely to Reach Miami
06/30/10 Market Gaining in Strength, Stability
06/30/10 Scientists Eye Tropic Storms As Oil Spreads Across Gulf
06/24/10 Bill Introduced To Allow Foreign Ships In Gulf Cleanup
06/23/10 Investigations Expand List Of BP’s Drill-Program Failures
06/23/10 Judge Halts Drilling Moratorium, While U.S. To Probe BP Drill Site
06/23/10 Sewer Upgrades in Florida Keys Need More Funding
06/16/10 Earthquake Code Presentations Go Live
06/16/10 Dredge Armada Converging on Louisiana
06/16/10 Tennessee Officials Fine TVA $11 Million Over 2008 Coal-Ash Pollution Incident
06/16/10 Obama Taps Former Federal Prosecutor To Head Minerals Management Service
06/09/10 Economic Worries Grow With Oil Spill
06/03/10 BP Funds Controversial $360 Mil Barrier Islands Plan
06/03/10 Shaw Awarded Barrier Island Work Funded by BP
06/02/10 Oil Spill in Gulf Brings New Limits
06/02/10 Tropical Storm Slashes Through Guatemalan Infrastructure
06/01/10 New Orleans Flexes Flood Controls In Advance of 5th Hurricane Season Since Katrina
05/28/10 2010 Hurricane Season Will Be “Active to Extremely Active,” Scientists Predict
05/28/10 Louisiana Gets Emergency Permits For 45 Miles Of Berms
05/26/10 BP Considers Options To Plug Gusher, Investigates ‘Complex Accident’
05/26/10 Website Channels Oil-Spill Info
05/26/10 BP Cleanup Subs Were Using Undocumented Workers
05/26/10 Congress Moving on Aid for Haiti, But Little Rebuilding in Country
05/26/10 U. of Buffalo Seismic Seminar Aimed at Haitian Engineers
05/26/10 Engineers Ponder Chile’s Quake Lessons
05/26/10 Nashville Restoring Full Service At Water and Wastewater Plants
05/26/10 TVA Will Keep New Plant Ash Waste On-Site
05/20/10 New Surge Barrier Wall Cuts Risk In Time for Hurricane Season
05/19/10 Did BP Skip Approval for Platform Engineering Design?
05/19/10 Lawmakers Unveil Climate-Change Bill
05/19/10 Resentment Flares Against Dutch Proposal To Mobilize Huge Dredging Fleet in Gulf
05/19/10 Congressman Calls for ‘Natural Defense’ Policy To Spur Effective Land-Use Plans
05/19/10 Setting Oil Spill Liability Limit: Is $10 Billiion Too High?
05/19/10 Oil-Spill Battlefront Spreads From Gulf to Washington, D.C.
05/19/10 Series of Rock-Bursts Throws Peruvian Tunnel Job Offtrack
05/19/10 Odebrecht Pushes forward With Next Phase of Peruvian Irrigation Project
05/19/10 Texas Weighs Expanding Controversial State Disposal Facility
05/14/10 Senate Bill Would Implement Pacific Coast Oil-Drilling Ban
05/12/10 Industry Waits for Cleanup Call And Obama Seeks Spill Law Changes
05/12/10 Out-of-Work Fishermen Hired By BP To Help Clean Up Its Spill
05/12/10 Closed-Loop Cooling Mandate May Cost California Plants
05/12/10 Oil Leak in Gulf Continues As Situation Starts To Get Sticky
05/12/10 Coal Ash Keeps Green Status, But Regulating It Will Cost
05/12/10 Nashville’s Waters Receding, But Damage Estimates Rising
05/12/10 Key Clue to Boston Pipe Burst Continues To Elude Authorities
05/11/10 Barrier Islands May Get Build-Up As Result of Spill
05/11/10 Water Diversions Still Spark Hopes Of Deflecting Oil Spill
05/07/10 Corps Speeds Up Permitting For Gulf Coast Cleanup
05/05/10 EPA Stiffens Coal-Ash Rules, But Proposal Allows Recycling
05/05/10 Crude Awakening
05/05/10 Installation of Massive Doors Is Key to Hanford Waste Plant
05/05/10 Drilling Crews in Washington Sought Cherries, Got the Pits
05/04/10 EPA Moves on Proposed New Rule For Coal Ash
04/28/10 Brazilian Floods, Government Inaction Trigger Deadly Landslides
04/28/10 Complicated Logistics Land Big TBM in Nevada
04/28/10 Corps, State Officials Release $1.7 B Anacostia River Cleanup Plan
04/21/10 New Orleans-Area Levee Bolstered by Deep-Soil Mixing
04/21/10 Volcano Disrupts Bauma Exhibition
04/21/10 Yucca Mountain Shutdown Halts After Washington State Lawsuit
04/14/10 New York City Takes Control of Governor Island’s Development
04/14/10 The Future of Clean Diesel Is ... Gasoline?
04/14/10 Southern California Quake Damaged Treatment and Storage Infrastructure
04/13/10 Critical Surge Barrier Ahead of Schedule
04/07/10 Fly Ash Looms As The ‘New Asbestos’
04/07/10 Coal-Ash Regulation Could Quash Plans To Build Plant
04/07/10 Seismic Tunnel Work Starts On Big San Francisco Upgrade
04/07/10 Florida Tribe Wins Ruling To Resume Everglades Construction
04/07/10 Carbon Lobby Cheers Drilling
03/31/10 Second Pipeline to Tierra del Fuego Completed
03/31/10 Chile Considers Concrete Code Changes
03/31/10 Haiti Seeking $3.9 Billion for First Reconstruction Phase
03/24/10 Canada Approves $1.7-Billion Pipeline From Alberta to Texas
03/10/10 Kiewit-Traylor JV Is Hiring On New Orleans Storm-Surge Job
03/10/10 Major Stormwater Relief Plan Brewing in Metro Milwaukee
03/10/10 Yucca Plan Bites the Dust
03/03/10 Chile’s Quake Damage Mitigated by Past Lessons
03/03/10 EPA Slams Impact of Troop Transfer to Guam
03/03/10 Chile Holds Strong Recovery Hopes
03/03/10 Study Ponders Missouri River’s Fate
03/03/10 EPA Declares New York City’s Polluted Gowanus Canal a Superfund Cleanup Site
03/03/10 U.S./European Group Offers Low Bid To Examine Panama Canal Road Crossing
02/26/10 Methane-Powered Treatment Plant
02/24/10 Saturated Watersheds and Stormy Forecast Worry Flood-Control Officials in the Heartland
02/24/10 Reconstruction Resources Organizing for Haitian Mission
02/24/10 Methane-Powered Treatment Plant
02/24/10 EPA Outlines Restoration Plan For Overstressed Great Lakes
02/17/10 Delaying California Diesel Rule Offers Builders Little Relief
02/12/10 Hope Dims for Quake-Trapped PBSJ Engineer in Haiti
02/10/10 Energy Dept. Pulls Plug On Yucca Mountain Storage Site
02/03/10 Wisconsin Refinery Will Turn Sawdust Into Diesel
02/03/10 Science Advances on Calculating Storm-Surge Risk in New Orleans
02/03/10 Engineers Fear Substandard Rebuilding Coming in Quake-Torn Haiti
02/03/10 New Sichuan Town Designed To Green Standards
02/03/10 U.S. Response in Haiti Shifts Gears
02/02/10 DOE Signals End to Yucca Mountain By Pulling NRC Application
01/29/10 Federal Agencies Set New Greenhouse Limits
01/27/10 Haiti’s Quake Assessment Is Small Step Toward Recovery
01/27/10 ASHRAE Releases New Code
01/27/10 Industry-Driven Disaster Relief Network Aims For Economic Recovery
01/27/10 Coal-Ash Spill Has New Costs
01/22/10 Logistics Experts Breaking Haiti Relief Logjam
01/20/10 Haiti Quake Recovery Planners Wait in Wings
01/20/10 Quake Was Too Much for Recent Disaster-Reduction Efforts
01/15/10 Coast Guard Tries to Fix Port-au-Prince's Cargo Port
01/15/10 Shattered Port-au-Prince Served as Haiti's Heart
01/15/10 Boston Contractor Sets Up Special Haiti Relief Fund
01/14/10 Relief Mobilizes for Haiti's Stricken and Stranded People
01/13/10 Impoverished Haiti May Be Stuck in Seismic Safety's Past
01/13/10 DOE Pushes Fuel Efficiency
01/13/10 Tougher Ozone Rule Proposed
01/07/10 EPA Proposes Tougher Ozone Standard
12/30/09 EPA Toughens Stance on Chesapeake Bay
12/30/09 DOE Comes Up With New Plan To Process Radioactive Waste
12/23/09 Engineers See Opportunity in Working on Low-Carbon Development
12/23/09 Building to LEED-Silver May Not Survive First Encounter
12/16/09 Getting Ready To Take a Beating
12/16/09 December 2008 Coal-Ash Spill Left Giant Mess, Big Legacy
12/16/09 Spill Cleanup, Investigation Advance Jointly
12/16/09 NSF Confirms Delay of Award To Manage Antarctic Facilities
12/09/09 Designs Revised For $1-Billion Flood Defense
12/09/09 California Diesel-Emission Curbs Under Fire
12/09/09 Study Outlines Economic Impact Of 80% Carbon-Dioxide Cut in the U.K. by 2050
12/02/09 Uses Pondered as Repair Tools Multiply for Levee Breaches
12/02/09 Contest Seeks Building Retrofit With a Zero Carbon Footprint
11/25/09 New EPA Rules To Regulate Stormwater Runoff at Jobsites
11/25/09 Record Rainfall Wipes Out Bridges in England
11/18/09 Feds Award First Everglades Contract
11/11/09 Pilot Projects Wanted to Test Eco-Landscape Rating System
10/21/09 Taiwan Typhoon Recovery Lags
10/21/09 ASHRAE Developing Manuals for New ‘Green’ Standards
10/16/09 President Renews Pledge To New Orleans’ Recovery
10/14/09 Brownfield Stimulus Funds Jump-Start San Francisco Redevelopment Project
10/14/09 Hefty windfall Speeds Southern-Border Levee Rehab
10/14/09 One-Time Atomic Bombmaking Center Uses Stimulus to Get Rid of By-Products
10/14/09 Cash Infusion Shores Up a Dam in Kentucky
10/14/09 Rural California City Leverages ARA Funds To Build Better Treatment Plant
10/14/09 Getting the Lead Out: Stimulus Funds Boost Idaho Cleanup
10/14/09 EPA To Step Up Enforcement
10/07/09 For First Time, EPA May Regulate CO2
10/01/09 EPA May Use Clean Air Act To Regulate Greenhouse Gasses
09/16/09 Cancelled Everglades Project in Claims Settlement
09/16/09 Study Says Coastal Property At Risk of Storm Surge is High
09/16/09 Agencies Release Recommendations For Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
09/09/09 EPA Seeks To Green Cleanup Of Hazardous Waste Sites
09/09/09 Flat Market Begins to See Uptick From Federal Stimulus Funds
09/03/09 California Water Agencies Face New California Chromium VI Draft Goal
08/12/09 New Enforceable Schedule Set For Hanford By DOE and States
08/07/09 Darcy Confirmed for Top Army Civil Works Post
08/06/09 DOE to Spend $6 Million On Controversial Geothermal Job
07/29/09 Just-in-Time Dredging Pulls Out Toxins
07/29/09 The Top 200 Environmental Firms
07/29/09 Studies Dispute Ash Spill's Engineering Analysis
07/29/09 Lessons Of Past Hurricanes Help Build Stronger Beach
07/15/09 Proposed Energy-Code Changes Are Out for Public Comment
07/09/09 Spanish-Led Team Wins Big Panama Canal Contract
07/08/09 Refrigerants Pose New Climate Risk
07/08/09 Storm-Barrier Equipment Fleet Uneasy About Evacuation Plan
07/08/09 Seismic Retrofit Under Way At East Bay Impoundment
07/01/09 AECOM Analysis Cites ‘Slime’ As Factor in TVA Coal-Ash Spill
07/01/09 Code Makers To Meet in July To Work on New Green Standards
07/01/09 Environmental Sector Weathers Downturn With Influx of Dollars
06/26/09 Design-Build Solar for Bakersfield Treatment Plant
06/25/09 Toxic Ash Spill Causes Revealed
06/24/09 Corps’ Mission Limits Challenged
06/24/09 Judge Lifts Injunction, Clearing Way for Everglades Restoration
06/17/09 Controversial Chemical Plant Moves Ahead in Fujian Province
06/10/09 Upcoming Season Finds Contractors Still Cleaning Up From Previous Years
06/04/09 Film Review: Skeptical Tradesmen Assemble Their First Green Building
06/02/09 Senate Approves Nominee To Head EPA Office of Air
05/27/09 House Panel Passes Global-Warming Bill
05/27/09 New Hydroseeding Standards Developed for Levee Armoring
05/27/09 PCB Remediation Work Starts in the Hudson River
05/27/09 Pilot Project Will Capture CO2 At Coal-Fired Powerplant
05/22/09 House Panel Clears Massive Global Warming/Energy Bill
05/21/09 Senate Confirms DOE Veteran to Top Environmental Cleanup Post
05/20/09 Firms Seize Panama’s Non-Canal Construction Opportunities
05/20/09 Older Masonry Buildings With Minor Strengthening Survived
05/20/09 Panama: Ongoing Canal-Related Work Is a Blast
05/20/09 Program To Support Carbon-Emission Reduction in 16 Cities
05/20/09 Feds Tighten Standards, Speed Schedule for Light Trucks
05/20/09 Biggest Urban Solar Project Set To Win $48-Million Federal Loan
05/20/09 A New Study Claims Buildings Can Cut Energy Use by 60%
05/15/09 Senate Panel Votes to Boost Water Infrastructure Funds
05/13/09 Engineers Say ‘Unlikely’ That Reservoir Triggered China Shock
05/13/09 California Canal Foes Resist Alignment Assessment Teams
05/08/09 EPA to Distribute $111.9 Million for Brownfields Cleanup
05/06/09 Louisiana Surge-Barrier Awards Begin
05/06/09 Corps Releases Plan To Revive Hudson River Estuary
05/06/09 A New Version of LEED-Rating System Overhauls Program
04/29/09 Park Service Spells Out Its $750-Million Program
04/29/09 Reports Predict Decreased Flow For Many Rivers Globally
04/22/09 BuRec, EPA Map Out $1.6 Billion Of New Funding
04/22/09 Six States in Oil-and-Gas Zones Get $500 Million for Coast Fixes
04/15/09 Carbon Footprint Legislation Could Press Hard on Industry
04/15/09 Webcor, Climate Earth Team Up To Measure Carbon Impact
04/09/09 EPA to Distribute $197 Million For Leaking UST Cleanup
04/08/09 Rollout of Funds Starts To Trickle Out
04/08/09 Medieval Structures Collapse in Big Italian Earthquake
04/02/09 Everglades Land Buy Will Start Small and Grow
04/01/09 Quick, Massive Response Saves North Dakota City
03/25/09 Hybrid Reactor Would Destroy 99% of Spent Nuclear Fuel
03/11/09 DOE Plans To Scale Back Yucca Site
03/11/09 After Dike Failure, TVA Cleans Area Near Kingston Coal Plant
03/11/09 Green Team Seeks Common Metric To Measure Emissions
03/11/09 EPA Tackles Coal-Ash Problem
02/25/09 BP To Invest $161 Million To Fix Violations at Texas City Refinery
02/18/09 New Report Highlights the Loss of Coastal Wetlands in the U.S
02/18/09 Sector To Receive Big Boost for Water Projects
02/11/09 Oak Ridge Cleanup Progressed But Some Milestones Slipping
02/06/09 Washington St. Claims Hanson Polluted
02/04/09 New Standards for Housing
01/14/09 Green-Retrofit Work Thrives In Uncertain Economic Times
01/14/09 New TVA Plant Spill May Spur Federal Coal-Ash Pond Scrutiny
01/14/09 Technique Conquers All As Long-Running Job Nears End
01/14/09 Hope for Funding Remains Strong
01/14/09 Bechtel To Build 'Clean' Coal Plant
01/07/09 Next Storm-Surge Project Aired
01/07/09 Meeting To Consider Storm-Surge Barriers for New York City
01/07/09 Refiners Expand Diesel Capacity
01/07/09 Electric-Vehicle-Charging Networks Launched in West
01/07/09 DOE Adopts Efficiency Standards
01/07/09 Art Imitates Remediation As First Step in City Cleanup
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