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11/18/09 Feds Award First Everglades Contract
Nearly nine years after passage of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $53-million construction contract for the Picayune Strand Restoration Project.
11/11/09 Pilot Projects Wanted to Test Eco-Landscape Rating System

The $2-million Sustainable Sites Initiative, having included its four-star rating system within its guidelines for developing and maintaining healthy landscapes, is seeking applications for 75 to 150 pilot projects to test the credit-based program.
10/21/09 Taiwan Typhoon Recovery Lags

After Taiwan’s parliament, the Legislative Yuan, convened to renegotiate a hastily approved, $3.65-billion reconstruction bill late in September, a new budget now has been released, requesting the same value.
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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
07/08/09Seismic 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
04/29/09Reports 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
03/11/09EPA 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 New Report Highlights the Loss of Coastal Wetlands in the U.S
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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