Mon July 03, 2017
UDOT to Build $5M Bridge for Wildlife Along I-80
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Utah Department of Transportation is planning to build a $5 million overpass for wildlife along one of the state's deadliest stretches of road for big game. The Salt Lake Tribune reports department statistics show cars traveling on the 13-mi....
Fri June 30, 2017
Vulcan Recycle Prioritizes Environmental Responsibility
Being an environmentally friendly corporate leader seems to be a goal or maybe even simply a “catch phrase” for the overall efforts of a lot of companies doing business in the United States Vulcan Material Company is taking its environmental responsibility to a new level in Georgia and has set up a new division at its Norcross, Georgia quarry: Vulcan Recycle....
JOHN FLESHER and MICHAEL BIESECKER - Thu June 29, 2017
Trump Administration Moves to Withdraw Clean-Water Rule
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama administration policy that protected more than half the nation's streams from pollution but drew attacks from farmers, fossil fuel companies and property-rights groups as federal overreach....
Lori Tobias - Wed June 28, 2017
Largest Water Supply Project in Georgia History Under Way
When finished, a water supply project under construction in Atlanta will not only be the largest ever undertaken in Georgia, but provide greater capacity than any other in the United States. It also is the site of a unique drilling technique never before utilized on the east coast....
Wed June 28, 2017
Construction on World's First 'Forest City' Begins
The world's first “Forest City,” created to fight pollution, is now under construction in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China. Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, a team that develops green projects all around the world, the futuristic Forest City will be home to a community of about 30,000 people....
Steve Karnowski - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed June 28, 2017
Minn. to Open 22 Meetings on Disputed Enbridge Pipeline
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota regulators are getting ready to open a series of 22 public meetings on an oil pipeline project that opponents have dubbed the next Dakota Access pipeline struggle. Enbridge Energy is seeking approval to replace its aging Line 3 pipeline across northern Minnesota....
Tue June 27, 2017
Firm Stops Drilling for Gas Pipeline
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A federal agency has told a company building a high-pressure natural gas pipeline it cannot resume drilling beneath creeks in southeast Ohio and northern West Virginia. The Columbus Dispatch reported the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected Texas-based Energy Transfers' request to resume horizontal drilling....
Brenda Ruggiero - Mon June 26, 2017
$63.3M Dune Project Under Way at Jersey Shore
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Philadelphia District is overseeing a $63.3 million project in New Jersey. The contract was awarded to Weeks Marine Inc., and is known as the Absecon Island Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project....
Wed June 21, 2017
Clean Coal Technologies Plans to Build Its First Pristine M Facility in Wyoming
Clean Coal Technologies Inc. (CCTI), an emerging cleaner-energy company utilizing patented and proven technology to convert untreated coal into a cleaner burning and more efficient fuel, has signed a binding agreement with Wyoming New Energy Corp....
Tue June 20, 2017
Rattlesnake Wind Project Begins Construction in Texas
Renewable Energy Systems (RES), a company that deals in the development, engineering, and construction of wind, solar, transmission and energy storage projects in the Americas, and Chicago-based Goldwind Americas, a subsidiary of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co....
