| 05/19/2013 | Letters Show Rift Over San Onofre Nuclear Plant Repairs
Los Angeles Times
May 19--In a flurry of letters late last year, Southern California Edison and the manufacturer that designed the steam generators at the now-dark San Onofre nuclear power plant appeared to be at odds over a long-term plan to repair the troubled facility. |
| 05/18/2013 | Official: Broken Rail Eyed in Conn. Train Crash
Associated Press/AP Online
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident. |
| 05/17/2013 | Boston Mayor Rolls out $1.8B Plan to Upgrade Buildings, Roads, Parks
Boston Herald (MA)
May 17--Mayor Thomas M. Menino's victory lap -- 20 years in the making -- begins today as he unveils a new handicapped-accessible park in Charlestown that's part of a $1.8 billion parting kiss to Boston to upgrade buildings, roads and public spaces. |
| 05/17/2013 | In D.C., Levee Project Is Drowning in Problems
The Washington Post
Work on the controversial 17th Street levee, designed to prevent floodwaters from surging across the Mall into downtown Washington, has stopped, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said, and it's not clear when the project will resume. |
| 05/19/2013 | Italian Minister Says High-Speed Rail Line Project Proceeding
BBC Monitoring European
Text of report by Italian popular privately-owned financial newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore, on 16 May |
| 05/16/2013 | Japanese Group Offers Fast-track on Alaska LNG Project
Alaska Journal of Commerce (Anchorage)
May 16--A Japanese consortium working on an independent Alaska liquefied natural gas project has completed a feasibility study and given it to state officials. |
| 05/19/2013 | Corrosion Plagues New Bay Bridge Span
Sacramento Bee (CA)
May 19--Doug Coe, a normally confident engineering manager for the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, walked into the nearby Oakland project office looking as if he were fighting back tears. |
| 05/16/2013 | China Approves Plans for Major Hydroelectric Dam Project
Irish Times
China's environment ministry has approved the construction of what will be the country's tallest hydroelectric dam despite conceding that the new dam will have serious environmental consequences. |
| 05/16/2013 | N.C. Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Crack Discovered
Associated Press/AP Online
RALEIGH, N.C. - A nuclear plant near North Carolina's capital city was shut down after operators reviewing ultrasonic tests from last year found the results showed tiny marks of corrosion and cracking that need repair, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. |
| 05/15/2013 | Scrapping of N.J.'s Iconic Roller Coaster Wrecked by Sandy Begins
Record, The; Bergen County, N.J.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS -- For the past six months, it has come to define the post-Sandy world at the Jersey Shore -- a steel skeleton sitting in the surf that was once the JetStar roller coaster. |
| 05/16/2013 | Interior Dept. Issues Fracking Disclosure Rule for Drilling on Public Land
Associated Press/AP Online
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Thursday it will require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. |
| 05/16/2013 | Senate Confirms Physicist Moniz as Energy Dept. Chief
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the new U.S. energy secretary. |
| 05/16/2013 | Maryland Seeks Private Partners for Purple Line
The Washington Post
About 300 engineers, financiers and consultants filled a hotel conference room Wednesday to learn how they might help build - and profit from - a $2.15 billion light-rail Purple Line through the Maryland suburbs. |
| 05/16/2013 | Plans Languish for Overhaul of NYC's Penn Station
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena. |
| 05/15/2013 | Stantec To Serve as Lead Design on $614M New Orleans Pump Station Project
Sacramento Bee (CA)
May 15--Sacramento-area officials with the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-based professional services and design consultant company Stantec Inc. will be part of a massive flood-control project in New Orleans. |
| 05/15/2013 | ODOT Glad To Pay $34M in Incentives to Get Okla. Highway Jobs Done Quickly
Tulsa World (OK)
May 15--Like a human artery, a closed highway bleeds unseen dollars every day that it's down as businesses lose customers to other areas and detours slow traffic to a walking pace. |
| 05/15/2013 | Va. Plans Nearly $1B in Richmond-area Transportation Projects Over Next Six Years
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
May 15--The Richmond region will receive nearly $1 billion for highway and rail improvements over the next six years under the state's new transportation funding package. |
| 05/15/2013 | Wash. State Precast Plant Expands to Meet Demands of Seattle's Highway 99 Tunnel
News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
May 15--A sign prominently posted on Canyon Road East, near the entrance to FPS-Encon Precast's expanded Frederickson plant, explains in short measure why dignitaries are gathering at the plant Wednesday to celebrate. |
| 05/15/2013 | Calif. Senate Panel Grills Caltrans About Bay Bridge Broken Bolts
Sacramento Bee (CA)
May 15--Frustrated state senators pressed California Department of Transportation officials at a Tuesday hearing about how they will deal with thousands of suspect steel parts in the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge which were installed even though they had not met specifications. |
| 05/15/2013 | Japan Nuke Watchdog To Halt Next-Gen Test Reactor Over Safety
Associated Press/AP Online
TOKYO - Japan's nuclear watchdog announced Wednesday that a trouble-plagued next-generation test reactor will not be allowed to restart due to safety violations, dealing a setback to the country's pro-nuclear government. |
| 05/15/2013 | Rwanda Building Collapse Kills Six, Injures 30
Associated Press/AP Online
KAMPALA, Uganda - Six people were killed and dozens more injured when a four-story building under construction collapsed in eastern Rwanda, police said Wednesday as the rescue effort ended. |
| 05/15/2013 | Belize Government Condemns Demolition of Mayan Pyramid by Road Crew
Associated Press/AP Online
BELIZE CITY - The government said Tuesday it is pursuing a "vigorous" investigation into a road-building company's near destruction of one of the largest Mayan pyramids in Belize. |
| 05/14/2013 | Worker Dies After Fall at Miami Construction Site
Miami Herald (FL)
May 14--A 29-year-old worker died after he fell from the seventh floor of the BrickellHouse construction site Monday morning, police said. |
| 05/14/2013 | Dune-Protection Appeal Goes to N.J. High Court
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
May 14--TRENTON -- In a case with wide implications for Shore restoration following Hurricane Sandy, the state Supreme Court heard an appeal Monday of a $375,000 jury award to a Long Beach Island couple who said construction of a barrier dune in 2010 deprived them of their ocean view. |
| 05/14/2013 | Laid-Off Workers Form Co-Op to Open Chicago Window Factory
Chicago Tribune (IL)
CHICAGO _ A group of workers who made news around the world when they staged a sit-in at a Chicago window factory in 2008 have struck out on their own with the help of a nonprofit. |
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