| 02/08/2012 | Hartford Steam Boiler Launches Small Contractors E&O Coverage
Business Wire
The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), a part of Munich Re, today announced the launch of Contractors Errors and Omissions (E&O) coverage targeted specifically to small "artisan-type" contractors. |
| 02/07/2012 | Washington Post: Add Provisions Banning Discrimination Against Gays by Fed Contractors
The Washington Post
CONTRACTORS THAT DO business with the federal government, according to the Labor Department, employ roughly 26 million people, 22 percent of the workforce. |
| 02/10/2012 | China Trade Falls Amid Reduced Demand for Steel, Concrete
Associated Press/AP Online
BEIJING - China's trade suffered its biggest decline in January since the 2008 crisis - a new sign of weak global demand and a slowing domestic economy. |
| 02/09/2012 | Texas A&M Plans $120M Expansion of Veterinary School
The Eagle
Feb. 09--Texas A&M University has planned a $120 million project for new and expanded facilities for its vet school, an effort administrators say is needed to avoid risking accreditation and respond to a shortage of veterinarians. |
| 02/09/2012 | Two 47-Story Residential Towers Proposed in Fort Lee, N.J.
The Record - Hackensack, New Jersey
Feb. 09--Two 47-story skyscrapers draped in glass would serve as a gateway to the Gold Coast and help to transform land in Fort Lee that has lain fallow for decades into some of the most prime pieces of property in New Jersey, developers and borough officials say. |
| 02/09/2012 | Panama Indians Win Withdrawal of Dam, Mines Law
Associated Press/AP Online
PANAMA CITY - Legislators in Panama have agreed to reconsider a law on dams and mining that set off disruptive protests by Indians and their supporters. |
| 02/09/2012 | Spending Reduction Bill Would Halt Funding for $4.8B MOX Project
The Augusta Chronicle, Ga.
Feb. 09--Legislation to cut $100 billion from a "bloated" U.S. nuclear weapons budget over the next decade includes a provision to halt further funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration's $4.8 billion mixed oxide fuel plant under construction at Savannah River Site. |
| 02/09/2012 | NRC Approves First New Nuclear Plant in 3 Decades
Associated Press/AP Online
WASHINGTON - The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia. |
| 02/08/2012 | Biomass Plant to be Online by 2013
Hungry Horse News, Columbia Falls, Mont.
Feb. 08--Flathead Electric and Stoltze sign historic power agreement |
| 02/09/2012 | Firm Unveils System to Recycle Waste Water from Fracking
Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)
Feb. 09--CARROLLTON -- Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new system to treat briny and muddy wastewater from its drilling operations in eastern Ohio. |
| 02/09/2012 | World Bank Lends Lebanon $200M for Water Project
The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon
Feb. 09--BEIRUT -- The Lebanese government signed Wednesday a $200 million World Bank loan to finance a $370 million project aiming to supply Beirut with water from the Awali River. |
| 02/09/2012 | New Cost for Hanford Cleanup Projected at $112 Billion
Tri-City Herald
Feb. 09--The new price tag for completing the remainder of Hanford nuclear reservation cleanup, plus some post-cleanup oversight, is $112 billion. |
| 02/08/2012 | Australian Building Watchdog Accused of Being "Anti-Union".
AsiaPulse News
CANBERRA, Feb 8 Asia Pulse - A prominent Australian Labor senator has taken aim at the building and construction watchdog, accusing it of being a blunt industrial instrument against workers. |
| 02/09/2012 | Fresno to Award Monterey Street Bridge Demolition Contract
The Fresno Bee
Feb. 09--A bridge to nowhere that has been part of downtown Fresno's skyline for more than 60 years is on the verge of coming down. |
| 02/09/2012 | Expert Raps World Bank over Construction of Tajik Power Plant's Dam
BBC Monitoring Central Asia
Text of report by privately-owned Tajik Avesta website on 9 February |
| 02/09/2012 | Detroit Bridge Builder Gives Up Control of Gateway Project to Keep Execs Out of Jail
Detroit Free Press
Feb. 09--Out of options and facing more jail time, leaders of the Detroit International Bridge Co. said Wednesday that they would cede control of the disputed Gateway Project at the Ambassador Bridge to a special outside committee, a move meant to keep billionaire businessman Manuel (Matty) Moroun and a top aide out of jail. |
| 02/09/2012 | UC Merced's $175M in Projects Include Housing, Classrooms
Merced Sun-Star
Feb. 09--UC MERCED IS GROWING UP -- and out. |
| 02/09/2012 | Casting of Rail Spans for Honolulu Rail Line Awaits Feds' OK
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Feb. 09--The federal government this week authorized nearly $185 million in construction on Honolulu's planned 20-mile rail line, but the city so far hasn't been given the green light to start erecting the concrete guideway that will sit atop the support columns it can now begin building. |
| 02/09/2012 | NRC Expected to Give New Ga. Nuclear Reactors Green Light
The Washington Post
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is widely expected to approve on Thursday a construction and operating license for new nuclear power reactors for the first time since 1978, giving Southern Co. the green light to build two new units at its existing Vogtle site in Georgia. |
| 02/08/2012 | Despite Two Radioactive Water Spills, Minn. Nuclear Plant Says There's No Risk
Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.)
Feb. 08--Radioactive water has spilled from Xcel Energy's Prairie Island nuclear power plant near Red Wing, Minn., on two recent occasions, according to notifications the utility sent to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this month. |
| 02/08/2012 | EPA Says U.S. Needs $300B in Sewer, Water Work
Associated Press/AP Online
ALBANY, N.Y. - A federal study shows municipalities nationwide need more than $300 billion worth of essential upgrades to long overlooked water and sewer systems over the next 20 years. |
| 02/07/2012 | Hydropower Admin Proposes to Split the Cost of Wind Farm Power Cuts
The Oregonian
Feb. 07--The Bonneville Power Administration proposed Tuesday to cover half the cost of wind farms' lost revenue when it curtails their output because too much hydropower already is being generated in the region. |
| 02/07/2012 | Tariffs Threat Halts Chinese Solar Surge, Exporter Says
The Oregonian
Feb. 07--Chinese solar factories have slashed production because of a U.S. threat to slap retroactive tariffs on imports to the United States, an Oregon wholesaler reports from China. |
| 02/09/2012 | Oil and Gas Drilling Oversight Lax, House Dems Report Claims
Associated Press/AP Online
WASHINGTON - Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, House Democrats said in a report Wednesday. |
| 02/08/2012 | FBI Probes L.A. Building Agency Bribery Charges
Los Angeles Times
FBI agents probing allegations of bribe-taking at the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety have obtained records and questioned individuals about a soft-spoken building inspector who retired from his post nearly a year ago. |
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