| 09/01/2010 | Feds Downplay Risk of Leak When Well Cap Moved
Associated Press/AP Online
The federal government's point man on the Gulf of Mexico spill response says there is no "significant risk" that more oil will leak into the sea when engineers remove the temporary cap Thursday that first contained the gusher in mid-July. |
| 09/01/2010 | Scientists Gather to Exchange Ideas, Help Shape Plan for Oil Spill Cleanup
The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.)
BILOXI, Miss. _ The Unified Command _ the federal agency in charge of spill response _ is meeting with scientists from across the Gulf of Mexico this week to get their ideas on how to find and clean up oil and dispersants lingering in the area. |
| 09/01/2010 | Investigation Begins Into Fatal Crane Accident on Chesapeake Energy Campus
The Daily Oklahoman
Sept. 01--An investigation into a fatal crane accident Tuesday on the Chesapeake Energy Corp. campus in Oklahoma City is under way, but few details on what caused the accident or what fell from the crane have been released. |
| 09/01/2010 | Report: Texas Pipeline Wasn't Marked Before Blast
Associated Press/AP Online
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas agency says a company didn't adequately mark the path of a buried natural gas pipeline that exploded after it was hit by a drill, killing a worker. |
| 09/01/2010 | Cape Wind Court Decision Rocks Environmentalists
Boston Herald
Environmentalists were thrown on the defensive yesterday after the chief justice of the Masachusetts Supreme Judicial Court warned that a pro-Cape Wind ruling opens the door for future nuclear power plants and oil rigs along the state's shoreline. |
| 09/01/2010 | AP: Feds Fail to Use Land for Solar Power
Associated Press/AP Online
ROACH DRY LAKE, Nev. - Not a light bulb's worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. |
| 09/01/2010 | Cambodia Boasts Plans for Asia's Tallest Building
Associated Press/AP Online
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Impoverished Cambodia plans to build a 1,820-foot (555-meter) skyscraper, its prime minister said Wednesday, a feat that would give one of the region's least-developed capitals the tallest building in Asia. |
| 08/31/2010 | Devastating Pakistan Floods Finally Heading to Sea
Associated Press/AP Online
KARACHI, Pakistan - Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. |
| 08/31/2010 | N.J. Commuter Rail Line Delayed By Funding Shortfall
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Aug. 31--State funding has been held up for a proposed commuter rail line between Glassboro and Camden, victim of a troubled Transportation Trust Fund and a tough economy. |
| 08/31/2010 | 1,000 Come to High-Speed Rail Contracting Session in Tampa
Tampa Tribune
Aug. 31--UPDATED: 1 MIN. AGO |
| 08/31/2010 | Jacobs Engineering Gets Contracts for Two Energy Projects
Associated Press/AP Online
PASADENA, Calif. - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a construction and engineering firm, said Tuesday that it has been awarded two contracts for work on energy and rail projects. |
| 08/31/2010 | Mass. Court Rejects Challenge to Cape Wind Permit
Associated Press/AP Online
BOSTON - Developers of a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm were cleared to move forward Tuesday when Massachusetts' high court rejected a claim that the project sidestepped local opposition to win a key permit. |
| 08/31/2010 | Deere Sells Wind Energy Business for $900M
Associated Press/AP Online
ST. LOUIS - Energy company Exelon Corp. said Tuesday it will pay $900 million for the wind energy assets of manufacturer Deere & Co., potentially signaling an active merger and acquisition period ahead for the power industry. |
| 08/31/2010 | Suspicious Fire Targets Construction Equipment at Tenn. Mosque Site
Los Angeles Times
A suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee has some local Muslims worried that their project has been dragged into the national debate surrounding a planned Islamic center near the former World Trade Center site in Manhattan. |
| 08/30/2010 | Another Delay Hits Final Plugging of BP's Well
Associated Press/AP Online
BP PLC says high seas on the Gulf of Mexico have delayed operations to raise the piece of equipment from the seabed that failed to prevent the massive oil spill. |
| 08/30/2010 | Nigeria: Shell Says $1.1B Oil Pipeline Nearly Done
Associated Press/AP Online
LAGOS, Nigeria - Royal Dutch Shell PLC says a $1.1 billion crude oil pipeline running through Nigeria's restive southern delta is almost complete. |
| 08/30/2010 | Historic City in South Pakistan Saved From Floods
Associated Press/AP Online
THATTA, Pakistan - Thousands of people streamed back to this historic southern city Monday where new levees hastily built from clay and stone held back floodwaters that have inundated much of Pakistan. |
| 08/30/2010 | Germany Weighing More Time for Nuclear Power
Associated Press
BERLIN--Germany is debating granting its 17 nuclear power plants an extra 10 to 15 years of production time as it prepares to unveil a comprehensive energy strategy next month. |
| 08/30/2010 | Artificial "Green" Island Proposed for Bahrain
Gulf Daily News, Manama, Bahrain
Aug. 30--EXPERTS proposing a new island off the coast of Manama that harnesses renewable energy say it could also be used as an offshore business centre housing residential and commercial property. |
| 08/30/2010 | Colo. Regulators Hold Hearings on Xcel Smart Grid
Associated Press/AP Online
DENVER - Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity is supposed to be an experiment in what a modern energy grid might look like. |
| 08/30/2010 | Activists Seek Ban on Mountaintop Removal Mining
Associated Press/AP Online
WASHINGTON - Activists from the Appalachian region called on the Obama administration Monday to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, saying it is destroying their land and harming their water quality. |
| 08/30/2010 | $200M Wind Farm Under Construction in N.Y.
Business Wire
Iberdrola Renewables recently began construction at its newest wind farm project, in Herkimer County, New York. |
| 08/28/2010 | Feds Say SEI Group 'Negligent' in Lab's Unsafe Design
Herald; Rock Hill, S.C.
CHARLESTON The contractor who built the 17,000-square-foot expansion at the Hollings Marine Laboratory on James Island was "clearly negligent" in designing a building that endangered workers' safety, federal officials said. |
| 08/29/2010 | Auditors' Report: U.S. Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq
Associated Press/AP Online
KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq - A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. |
| 08/29/2010 | Hydroelectric Developers Eye Mississippi River's Potential
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aug. 29--For decades, the Mississippi River has been a key passageway for barges and other vessels that move millions of tons of coal and petroleum to help power the nation's economy. |
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