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10/29/08 $1.8-Billion Offshore Port To Supply Texas Refinery Growth

Plans for an offshore oil port in the Gulf of Mexico off of Texas are rapidly moving forward after decades of literal pipedreams.
10/22/08 EPA Passes Toughest Standard for Lead Emissions in an Era
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has toughened its regulation governing maximum airborne lead levels, the first revision of the federal lead standard in 30 years.
10/16/08 EPA Sets Tougher Airborne Lead Standard

The Environmental Protection Agency has toughened its regulation governing maximxum airborne lead levels, the first revision of the federal lead standard in 30 years.
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10/15/08 Seattle Membrane Plant Treats to Higher Levels
10/15/08 Membrane Bioreactors Scale Up to Gain Size and Market
10/15/08 DOE Former Weapons Complex Will Consolidate Under New Plan
10/08/08 Agreement Allows Construction Start on Challenged Refinery
10/08/08 New Breach-Repair Technique Shows Promising Results
09/17/08 ASCE's Post-Disaster Studies Need Procedural Changes
09/17/08 Crews Are Scrambling To Fix Power After Ike
09/17/08 Housing-Market Collapse Touches Firms But Some Find New Sectors
09/10/08 Investigators Urge Larger Federal Risk-Reduction Role
09/10/08 Solar Asphalt System Pro vides Green-Heat Energy Source
08/27/08 Hanford Site Nuclear Reactor Named a National Historic Site
08/20/08 DOE’s $89-million Facility Upgrade Will Cut Fossil-Fuel Use by 80%
08/06/08 Soils-Testing Contract Sets Grandest Scope
08/06/08 Heavy Work Load Strains Resources
07/23/08 Tiny Endangered Fish Adds to Southern California Water Woes
07/16/08 Levee-Clearing Job Extracts A Bitter Root in New Orleans
07/16/08 Facing Tough Competition, URS Lands Huge U.K. Contract
07/16/08 Project Loan Flood May Swamp DOE
07/16/08 Reopened Desert Mine Will Be Self-Sustaining
07/16/08 Canadian Plans Compete for Greenhouse-Gas Reductions
07/16/08 Federal Court Strikes Down Air-Quality Rule
07/09/08 Feds, State of Idaho Strike Deal on Nuclear Cleanup
07/02/08 U.S. and Idaho Strike Deal On Plutonium-Related Cleanup
06/25/08 CH2M Hill-Fluor Team Selected For Next Big Hanford Waste Job
06/25/08 Carbon Tool Could Become Green Design Mainstay
06/20/08 Weather Limits New Orleans' Hurricane Awareness Event
06/19/08 CH2M Beats EnergySolutions On Big Nuke Waste Bid
06/04/08 Nuclear-Waste Cleanup Players Changing at DOE's Hanford Site
06/04/08 Massachusetts Law To Review Projects in State-Managed Waters
05/07/08 Fat Fuel Will Fly Faster Than Chickens Ever Could
05/07/08 Food Shortages Turn Corn to Toast as Fuel
04/30/08 GAO Upholds $4-Billion DOE Job to Fluor Team After Bid Protest
04/28/08 GAO Rejects URS/Washington DOE Bid Claim of $4 Billion
04/18/08 Corps Runs Operation Mildred, Hurricane Prep Exercise
04/16/08 State Blocks Gas Terminal Job
04/16/08 Border-Fence Work Continues Despite Environmental Opposition
04/09/08 U.S. Firm Wins U.K. Contract To Manage Nuclear Waste Program
04/02/08 Companies Will Put Up $1 Billion To Develop Photovoltaic Power
04/02/208 Mix of Gases Can Improve Carbon-Dioxide Sequestration
04/02/08 D.C. Plant Must Develop Schedule To Limit Nitrogen
03/20/08 Port of Oakland Approves Clean Air Initiative
03/19/08 W.R. Grace Will Pay $250 Million To Clean Up Montana Site
03/19/08 Environmental Groups Sue To Stop Project in Wilderness Area
03/19/08 Atlanta's Downtown Corridor Hammered by a Twister
03/18/08 Environmental Groups Sue Feds Over Colorado Gas Pipeline
03/13/08 EPA Announces Tougher Standard for Ozone
03/13/08 Engineers Fail Public Duty To in Inform Public
03/12/08 Canadian Governments Tout Public-Private Effort
03/13/08 Verdict: Human-Induced Climate Change Is Drying the West
02/13/08 Projects Move From Virtual Toward Reality
01/24/08 Former Washington Group Protests Big DOE Contract
01/18/08 Pollution Without Borders: Courts Open Cleanup Cost Doors
01/16/08 DOE Picks Fluor At Savannah River
01/09/08 Fluor and DOE Crews Complete Tough Sludge Cleanup at Hanford
01/09/08 Failure Illustrates Growing Problem
01/09/08 Levee Officials in New Orleans Select Consultants for Master Drainage Plan
01/03/08 Public-Private Agreement Releases Phoenix from Groundwater
01/03/08 Fish Collector Aims To Advance State of the Art for High Dams
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