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09/17/2008 After Ike, DOT Gives $5 Mil. to Texas, Louisiana

09/17/2008 Crews Are Scrambling To Fix Power After Ike

09/17/2008 Housing-Market Collapse Touches Firms But Some Find New Sectors

09/12/2008 Ike Takes Aim at Texas Coast As Residents Head for Safety

09/10/2008 Solar Asphalt System Provides Green-Heat Energy Source

09/10/2008 Investigators Urge Larger Federal Risk-Reduction Role

09/05/2008 A Small Army Is Working So Restore Louisiana’s Power

09/03/2008 Gustav Cuts All But One Main Power Line to New Orleans

09/03/2008 Testing a Storm-Surge Calculator

09/03/2008 Gustav Delivers Perfect Load Test

09/02/2008 EPA Blocks Corps Project in Mississippi

08/31/2008 Gulf Coast Braces for Gustav

08/28/2008 New Orleans Braces For Visit From Hurricane Gustav

08/27/2008 Temporary Waterfalls as Art Was Lengthy Work in Progress

08/25/2008 Ames Team Wins Big Contract For California System

08/20/2008 Court Agrees To Decide Issue Critical to Role of Lake Lanier

08/06/2008 Soils-Testing Contract Sets Grandest Scope

08/06/2008 Heavy Work Load Strains Resources

08/06/2008 Rapid Response Bolsters Structures at Risk of Collapse

08/06/2008 Post-Flood Sandbags Reassigned

08/06/2008 Shattered-Rock Systems Provide New Water Resources

07/23/2008 New Orleans Levee Board Funds Review of Corps Work

07/18/2008 Worrisome Seepage at New Orleans Breach Repair Draws Outside Review

07/16/2008 Levee-Clearing Job Extracts A Bitter Root in New Orleans

07/16/2008 Facing Tough Competition, URS Lands Huge U.K. Contract

07/16/2008 Project Loan Flood May Swamp DOE

07/16/2008 Reopened Desert Mine Will Be Self-Sustaining

07/16/2008 Canadian Plans Compete for Greenhouse-Gas Reductions

07/16/2008 Federal Court Strikes Down Air-Quality Rule

07/09/2008 Feds, State of Idaho Strike Deal on Nuclear Cleanup

07/07/2008 Ten Minutes with Professor Gerry Galloway on The Midwest Floods

07/02/2008 U.S. and Idaho Strike Deal On Plutonium-Related Cleanup

07/02/2008 Everglades Land Deal Changes the Plan

06/25/2008 Lessons of 1993 Pay Dividends in 2008

06/25/2008 Carbon Tool Could Become Green Design Mainstay

06/20/2008 Weather Limits New Orleans' Hurricane Awareness Event

06/19/2008 CH2M Beats EnergySolutions On Big Nuke Waste Bid

06/18/2008 Midwest Staggers Back From the Flood

06/11/2008 "My Name is Levee, and I Have Risk"?

06/11/2008 Painful Lesson of Katrina Spreads Across the Land

06/06/2008 Engineers Dig Channel To Drain Lake

 

 

06/04/2008 Dispute Over Big Reservoir Heads to Mediation this Month

06/04/2008 Gulf Coast Defenses Are Up, But Risks Remain in Areas

05/30/2008 Hurricane Defenses Are Going Up, But So Is Complacency

05/28/2008 Georgia Streamlines Agencies To Promote Reservoir Builds

05/28/2008 Troops Blast Lake Drainage As Aftershocks Rock China

05/27/2008 Sinkhole Collapse Lands Firm in Deep Water

05/22/2008 Los Angeles Maps $1-Billion Water Conservation Program

05/21/2008 Temblor Was Stronger Than Anticipated

05/08/2008 San Diego Water Board Votes To Raise San Vicente Dam

05/07/2008 Fat Fuel Will Fly Faster Than Chickens Ever Could

05/07/2008 Study Supports Desalination

05/07/2008 Modified Waters Plan Awaits Public Comments To Advance

05/07/2008 Food Shortages Turn Corn to Toast as Fuel

04/30/2008 Treated Effluent Eyed For Heating and Cooling Buildings

04/28/2008 GAO Rejects URS/Washington DOE Bid Claim of $4 Billion

04/25/2008 Corps Urged to Raise Volume On New Orleans Risk Warnings

04/23/2008 Backyard Tiff Stalls Plan To Clear Trees From Levees

04/23/2008 Drought Drives Israel Toward More Desalination Capacity

04/18/2008 Corps Runs Operation Mildred, Hurricane Prep Exercise

04/16/2008 Border-Fence Work Continues Despite Environmental Opposition

04/16/2008 Mississippi Waters Diverted Into Lake

04/11/2008 Mississippi River Spillway Divides the Flood

04/10/2008 Corps Opens Spillway Gates To Protect New Orleans

04/09/2008 New Orleans Storm-Surge Barrier Contract is Awarded

04/09/2008 New Orleans Braces As Mississippi Swells

04/02/2008 Mix of Gases Can Improve Carbon-Dioxide Sequestration

04/02/2008 D.C. Plant Must Develop Schedule To Limit Nitrogen

03/31/2008 Las Vegas Water Agency Awards Lake Mead Tunnel Contract

03/26/2008 New Water Intake at Lake Mead Will Keep Las Vegas Wet

03/26/2008 DOE Weighs Plan To Privatize Yucca

03/20/2008 Port of Oakland Approves Clean Air Initiative

03/19/2008 Atlanta's Downtown Corridor Hammered by a Twister

03/18/2008 Environmental Groups Sue Feds Over Colorado Gas Pipeline

03/13/2008 EPA Announces Tougher Standard for Ozone

03/13/2008 Engineers Fail Public Duty To in Inform Public

03/12/2008 W.R. Grace to Pay Huge Montana Site Cleanup Bill

03/12/2008 Treat Some Levees As Dams, Say Panelists

03/12/2008 Canadian Governments Tout Public-Private Effort

03/12/2008 Pennsylvania Towns Challenge Nutrient Program

03/11/2008 CH2M Hill Is Set to Win London CSO Megaproject

02/20/2008 Hudson River PCB Cleanup Projects Under Construction

02/19/2008 Corps Delivers 100-year Protection Plan

02/13/2008 Akron Looks at Selling Sewers To Fund Scholarships

02/13/2008 Projects Move From Virtual Toward Reality

02/06/2008 Corps of Engineers Readies Clay Stockpile in New Orleans

01/30/2008 Okeechobee Protection Plan Goes to Florida Legislature

01/24/2008 Former Washington Group Protests Big DOE Contract

01/23/2008 Okeechobee Dike's Cutoff Will Introduce Japanese Method

01/18/2008 Pollution Without Borders: Courts Open Cleanup Cost Doors

01/16/2008 Official Commitments Buoy Everglades Restoration Hope

01/16/2008 Outside Experts Warn About Grim California Levee Risk

01/16/2008 DOE Picks Fluor At Savannah River

01/09/2008 Failure Illustrates Growing Problem

01/09/2008 Levee Officials in New Orleans Select Consultants for Master Drainage Plan

01/03/2008 Public-Private Agreement Releases Phoenix from Groundwater

01/03/2008 Fish Collector Aims To Advance State of the Art for High Dams

 


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