EPA, Corps Propose Changes in Wetlands Replacement Rules - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Proposal promotes expanded use of mitigation banking. (Photo courtesy of EPA)
Publication Date: 28 March , 2006
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Federal Court Strikes Down EPA 'New Source' Regulation - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In a decision deemed “overkill” by electric utilities, a federal appellate court has vacated a 2003 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that lets utilities overhaul aging coal-fired power
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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Flood Threat Detailed As Funding Initiatives Fail - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Authorities in California are scrambling to find alternative funding sources for urgently needed levee improvements north of Sacramento following the failure of federal and state initiatives to fund the wo
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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Floodwall Design Left Scant Safety Margin - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Flaws in the design of the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans, including inadequate safety margins, could exist in other sections of the city’s flood control system, a panel of engineers warned the U.S
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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Investment Firm Offers To Shoulder Bhopal's Cost - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A North Carolina-based investment fund is willing to bet up to $1 million that the Bhopal, India, site of the world’s worst industrial accident can be cleaned up. In an effort to break the deadlock t
Publication Date: 20 March , 2006
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Kempthorne Nominated to Head Interior Dept.- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Kempthorne has support in Senate, where he served from 1993-1998 (White House photo by Paul Morse)
Publication Date: 17 March , 2006
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Feds Down on Developer Of Large Kansas City Project - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Federal regulators have cited a 1,200-acre housing development in suburban Kansas City for failing to protect against stormwater runoff. The Environmental Protection agency acted under a national effort to
Publication Date: 13 March , 2006
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Many Look To Tax Credits in Voluntary Emissions Efforts - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Many public and private U.S. entities are voluntarily pushing for emissions reductions through major infrastructure investments or market-based systems for buying and selling emissions credits. The latter,
Publication Date: 13 March , 2006
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Monolithic Cure Sparks Interest of Levee Engineers - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A San Francisco civil and structural engineer has offered a scheme to strengthen weak levees in California’s Central Valley which has at least one engineer for several levee boards urging them
Publication Date: 13 March , 2006
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New Orleans Subsidence Played Significant Role In Hurricane Protection Failures, Scientists Report
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Damage from Hurricane Katrina was much worse than predicted because of nearly 3 ft of subsidence in some locations, according an interim report from an expert task force of engineers and scientists.
Publication Date: 10 March , 2006
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$1.1-Billion Plan Is on Table To Restore Puget Salmon - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Stakeholders around Washington state’s Puget Sound are floating a plan to spend $1.1 billion restoring the region’s salmon populations over the next decade. Funding for the ambitious Puget Soun
Publication Date: 06 March , 2006
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Millions Sought For California Protection - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Bolstering of California’s levees could start before the storm season begins this fall following Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) declaration of a state of emergency for the system as rainstorm
Publication Date: 06 March , 2006
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Corps Tries Soft Approach To Control Bank Erosion - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers includes the brush box in its 2005 Sacramento River Erosion Site Inventory report as an experimental erosion control method.
Publication Date: 02 March , 2006
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As Biodiesel Becomes Popular, Users Weigh Its Benefits - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The use of biodiesel has grown considerably in the last year, but the green fuel source probably will not replace petroleum diesel any time soon.
Publication Date: 27 February , 2006
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Campaign for Clean Air Is Producing Power That's Lean and Green - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
By the time the year is through, the clean diesel movement will have made significant strides. Since 1996, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began regulating off-road diesel tailpipe emissions,
Publication Date: 27 February , 2006
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Ergonomic Filters Could Make Mechanics’ Lives Easier - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A revolution is taking place inside today’s diesel engines, and it is forcing engineers to rethink critical components on the outside, including the humble oil filter.
Publication Date: 27 February , 2006
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Saltwater can be desalinated with about half the energy required by existing technologies, a research group claims. A 60,000-gallon-per-day pilot facility has demonstrated the energy reductions in two test
Publication Date: 27 February , 2006
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Corps Culpable for Flooding? Answers to the Accusations - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A top official of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that none of the accusations that it is responsible for poor design and construction of the failed New Orleans flood protection system have been prov
Publication Date: 17 February , 2006
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Corps Culpable for Flooding? Answers to the Accusations - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A top official of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that none of the accusations that it is responsible for poor design and construction of the failed New Orleans flood protection system have been prov
Publication Date: 17 February , 2006
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EPA Agreements Limit Fines and Allow Monitoring of Farms - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In a first step toward setting firm guidelines on the monitoring of emissions from factory-style farms, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached agreement with 20 farms to collect air samples.
Publication Date: 13 February , 2006
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Salinity Solutions Proposed As Treatment Debate Drugs - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Dealing with the saline wastewater threat to California’s groundwater from food-processing discharge will cost about $562 million, estimates the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The agency is proposing tw
Publication Date: 13 February , 2006
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Corps of Engineers FY '07 Budget Would Drop by a Third - McGraw-Hill Construction
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The Corps of Engineers civil works program would get $5.8 billion, down 34% from this year's $7.4 billion. The 2006 total includes $2.9 billion in supplemental spending to rebuild levees and carry out othe
Publication Date: 09 February , 2006
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Snow Loads Studied For Clues to Polish Roof Collapse - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Deep, frozen snow is seen as a likely cause of the roof collapse at the large exhibition centre in Katowice, Poland, causing over 60 deaths and around 150 injuries on January 28. The relatively new, and co
Publication Date: 30 January , 2006
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Effort To Raise New Orleans' Storm Defenses Turns to Canal Closure Gates - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun issuing calls for bids to construct storm gates and bypass pumps for the mouths of three stormwater outfall canals in New Orleans.
Publication Date: 23 January , 2006
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How To Spend $30 Billion - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Like runners in a relay, water and wastewater utilities across England and Wales are hot off the starting block on a $30-billion, five-year construction sprint. This is the fourth round of environmental in
Publication Date: 23 January , 2006
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Angled Wells Are Tapping Big Muddy’s Sweet Spot - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
North Dakota’s South Central Regional Water District has a new angle for boosting water supplies—15°.
Publication Date: 16 January , 2006
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Shaw Group Wins Delayed DOE Contract at Uranium Site - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s long-delayed and much-protested effort to select a cleanup team for its Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, the country’s sole operating uranium enrichment facility, is fi
Publication Date: 16 January , 2006
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U.S. Company To Build in Ukraine - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The facility will be in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an egg-shaped area of about 30 sq km contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear powerplant explosion and fire, the world’s worst nuclear powerplant accident. Energoatom has not yet selec
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Publication Date: 16 January , 2006
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DOE Awards Kentucky Cleanup Contract to Portage-Shaw Group Team - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A joint venture of a Shaw Group Inc unit and a small New Mexico-based firm has won a Dept. of Energy contract for environmental cleanup work at the department's gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Ky. The
Publication Date: 05 January , 2006
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Scientists Hope California Probe Yields Quake Clues - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At the December meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, a team of Stanford University Professors shared the first readings sent to the surface of the earth from a 3-mile-deep hole in th
Publication Date: 28 December , 2005
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Spending Plan Holds Promises for Levees - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A broadly supported spending measure battling its way through Congress would double the amount of federal emergency funds available for rebuilding and hardening hurricane-hammered New Orleans levees. But a
Publication Date: 26 December , 2005
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Bechtel-UC Team Wins Bid to Manage Los Alamos Lab - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
It was the first time in its 63-year history the the Los Alamos National Laboratory's management had been put out to bid. The facility, which traces its origins to the Manhattan Project during World War II, has been rocked over the past 17 years
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Publication Date: 23 December , 2005
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EPA Recommends Stricter Particulate Regs, but Stops Short of Panel Guidelines - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed standards for fine particulate matter are tighter than the existing regulations, but weaker than a scientific board recommended and also not as stringent
Publication Date: 23 December , 2005
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EPA Recommends Stricter Particulate Regs, but Stops Sort of Panel Guidelines - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed standards for fine particulate matter are tighter than the existing regulations, but weaker than a scientific board recommended and also not as stringent
Publication Date: 23 December , 2005
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EPA Recommends Stricter Particulate Regs, but Stops Sort of Panel Guidelines - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed standards for fine particulate matter are tighter than the existing regulations, but weaker than a scientific board recommended and also not as stringent
Publication Date: 23 December , 2005
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Alaska Drilling Dropped as Congress Approves $29 Billion for Hurricane Relief - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After deleting a provision to open an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, the Senate approved a bill that would send $29 billion in aid to the Gulf Coast, to help the region rebuild from recent hurric
Publication Date: 22 December , 2005
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Senate Sidetracks Oil Drilling in Alaska Refuge - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Senate has blocked a plan to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a move that also stalled a $29-billion aid package for hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast states.
Publication Date: 21 December , 2005
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California Clean Air Measure Roils Builders - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
California developers and real estate associations move quickly to threaten legal action against a clean air rule unanimously approved on Thursday, Dec. 15, by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control
Publication Date: 20 December , 2005
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Senate Confirms House Aide as Head of Superfund Office - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Senate has approved House staffer Susan P. Bodine as head of the Environmental Protection Agency office overseeing the Superfund program, after a Democratic lawmaker released a procedural "hold" on the nomination.
Publication Date: 20 December , 2005
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$3 Billion Proposed for New Orleans Levee Work, But No Safety Guarantee - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At a hastily-organized press conference Dec. 15 in New Orleans, Dan Hitchings, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers director of the New Orleans reconstruction Task Force Hope, announced that the Bush administratio
Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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$32-billion for Hurricane Relief Hinges on Fate of Alaska Oil Provision - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
House and Senate negotiators have attached a $32-billion package of relief aid for hurricane-stricken Gulf Coast states to a defense spending bill, but the fate of that plan is up in the air on Capitol Hil
Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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Sheet Piles Pulled in Big Easy Measure Up: Test Tools Don’t - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Seven pilings pulled Dec. 13 from either end of the site of a 455-ft breach of the 17th Street Canal that opened in Hurricane Katrina were found to have been long enough to pass the specified elevation of 17 ft below sea level. Two different non
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Publication Date: 19 December , 2005
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DuPont to Pay $10-Million Penalty in Settlement With EPA - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In the largest civil penalty the Environmental Protection Agency has collected, DuPont Co. has agreed to pay $10.25 million to settle alleged violations of federal environmental law. Under the agreement, w
Publication Date: 15 December , 2005
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Equipment Failure Possible Cause of Missouri Dam Breach - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A possible pump malfunction may have precipitated a pre-dawn Dec. 14 hydroelectric dam breach and flood near Lesterville, Mo., that injured three people and destroyed at least one home. The plant owner, st
Publication Date: 15 December , 2005
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Ground Pollution Fears Delayed UK Oil Fire Fight - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Toxic Chemical Spill After Explosion Leaves City Looking for Water - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 05 December , 2005
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Food Processors Pressed For Better Discharge Solutions - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
If the California Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Central Valley region approves a $3-million settlement with a cheese manufacturer on Nov. 28, a resulting $1-million, 14-month salinity study c
Publication Date: 28 November , 2005
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Levees - Peer Review Panel Named - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The group succeeds the team dispatched by ASCE in October to gather "perishable" data on levee and floodwall damage before it was covered over during repairs.
Publication Date: 28 November , 2005
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New Transmission Proposed To Break Western Bottleneck - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Dept. of Energy’s Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is soliciting expressions of interest, due by Dec. 15, to expand a 476-mile, six-line transmission corridor known as "TOT 3" with a combined 1,605-MW capacity. It’
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Publication Date: 28 November , 2005
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Denver Plant Keeps Running While Critical Conduit Is Fixed - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
For 30 years, the 1,060-ft-long portion of box conduit has been in nearly continuous use, carrying 65 mgd of effluent from the plant’s four south primary clarifiers. In 2002, URS Corp’s Denver office found that the Metro Waste Water Di
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Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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New Process May Solve Old Coalbed Methane Problem - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Results should be in by Thanksgiving for the test run of a Montana-based engineering firm’s proposed solution for a major environmental problem from coalbed methane gas drilling. If the packaged wate
Publication Date: 21 November , 2005
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City Turns from Rescue To Reconstruction - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In presentations to a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Nov. 2, the teams investigating the levees said engineering that failed to address weak soil conditions at the 17th Street site appeared to have led to the fail
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Publication Date: 14 November , 2005
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Power of Water Use Is Growing Globally - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
With global population expected to hit 9 billion by 2050, finding more efficient ways to capture, clean and recycle water is more important than ever. But cost and fair distribution is tough in an era when the gap between haves and haves not is
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Publication Date: 14 November , 2005
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Louisiana Rebuilding Conference Calls for Unity on Goals and Plans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Raising hurricane protection for Greater New Orleans to Category 5 status registered high on the list of issues for participants at a Louisiana Reconstruction and Recovery Conference that began in the city
Publication Date: 11 November , 2005
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Alaska Refuge Energy Provision Dropped from House Budget Bill - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
House Republicans bowed to opposition from GOP moderates and deleted a budget bill provision that would have permitted oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The Rules Co
Publication Date: 10 November , 2005
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Booming Parched Cities Trigger Search for New Water Sources - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In Las Vegas, one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation, a recent water resource plan estimated that the population of 1.8 million could grow to 3.2 million by 2025 with a need for 400,000 additiona
Publication Date: 09 November , 2005
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Court Says Fish Need Help Now - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"It is not enough to provide water for the coho to survive in five years, if in the meantime, the population has been weakened or destroyed by inadequate water flows," wrote Judge Dorothy W. Nelson for the panel. The decision comes sho
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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Plate Piles Show Promise in Stabilizing California Slopes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The technique is similar to pin-piles used in large landslide repair, but with less disturbance and cost, says its inventor, Dick Short, chief geotechnical engineer of San Diego-based Kleinfelder Inc. He also is general manager of community-supp
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Publication Date: 07 November , 2005
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California Water Treatment Operator Canned for Ash Trade - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Sacramento-based California Regional Water Quality Control Board (WQCB) and the state Dept. of Health Services (DHS) are investigating how plant personnel used fly ash, a grayish cinder used as a concrete additive, instead of soda ash. The l
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Publication Date: 03 November , 2005
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Engineers Hear Reports of "Malfeasance" in New Orleans Levee Construction - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A lead engineer-investigator studying why New Orleans levees and floodwalls failed during Hurricane Katrina says his team has heard suggestions that there was "malfeasance" in the flood protection system's
Publication Date: 03 November , 2005
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