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Breaking stories about power and industrial engineering and construction. Power coverage includes generation, transmission and distribution. Industrial coverage includes "clean" industries such as microelectronics, pharma and biotech as well as energy, manufacturing, process and basic metals industries. Coverage of both encompasses new developments, markets, trends, R&D, conferences, capital equipment and materials.

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11/06/08 As Yucca Job Switches Managers, Project Faces Obama's Opposition

The U.S. Energy Dept. is replacing a Bechtel-SAIC joint venture as manager of its planned Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository north of Las Vegas.
11/05/08 From North to South, New Pipe Delivers Power to Argentina

Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and its sheer size is one of the greatest obstacles it faces concerning its energy supply.
11/05/08 Clean Air: EPA Issues Follow-up to 2007 Refineries Rule

The Environmental Protection Agency has offered new options for controlling toxic air pollution from petroleum refineries.
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11/05/08 'Every Day Is Trash Day' for Galveston's Cleanup Team
11/05/08 URS-Shaw-Areva Win Big Role At DOE's Yucca Mountain Site
10/29/08 Army Generates Portable Field Power From Garbage
10/22/08 CH2M Hill Awarded Emirates Program
10/15/08 Utilities Stretch Projects Out In Wake of Credit Crunch
10/15/08 Hospital's Stormwater Pond Doubles as Heat Exchanger
10/08/08 German Utility Trolls World for Carbon-Capture Technologies
10/01/08 Agreement Allows Construction Start on Challenged Refinery
09/29/08 Energy Tax Breaks in Limbo As Congress Nears Adjournment
09/25/08 Sale to French Will Boost U.K. Nuclear Construction
09/24/08 Tugs Tow $900-million LNG Plant From Spain to Italy's Adriatic
09/24/08 Utility Applies for License For Two New Texas Nuke Plants
09/24/08 Outfall Pipe Floated and Sunk For Washington State Plant
09/17/08 Fuel Facility Faces Fights for Funds, Workers and Suppliers
09/17/08 Worldwide Thirst for Oil Is Fueling Domestic Boom in Drilling, Refining
09/17/08 Renewable Energy Grabs Headlines But Fossil Fuel Still Dominates
09/10/08 System Review Sought After Storm Knocks Out 1 Million
09/10/08 FHWA Releases First Storm Funds
09/10/08 Corps and Private Sector Reach An Agreement on Texas Project
08/27/08 Burec Project Targets Southwest
08/25/08 Ames Team Wins Big Contract For California System
08/20/08 Transmission Line Clears Hurdle With West Virginia's Approval
08/20/08 California Utility Inks Two Deals For Another 880 MW of Power
08/20/08 An Ill Wind Blows From Capitol Hill As Alt Energy Tax Credits Expire
08/13/08 $300-Million Turbine Order Launches $1-Billion Program
08/13/08 Room-Temperature Process Stores Energy Cheaper
08/13/08 Graphite Will Keep Australia in Hot Water
08/13/08 East Coast Natural-Gas Link to Western Supply Progresses
08/06/08 High Oil Prices Lubricate $800-million Coal-to-Gas Plant
08/06/08 Cost Estimate Rises 67% For Yucca Mountain Repository
08/06/08 Alaska Approval May Not Be Enough To Move Gas
07/31/08 MIT Scientists Claim Breakthrough In Solar Energy Storage Experiment
07/30/08 Tornado Is One Problem That Could Not Be Engineered
07/30/08 Global Market Is School of Hard Knocks for Small Utility
07/30/08 Design and Financing Key to Plant Progress
07/23/08 Contract With Delaware Utility Will Anchor Offshore Development
07/23/08 After Ownership Shuffle, Giant U.K. Wind Farm Gets Started
07/23/08 New Waste-to-Energy Plant Will Create Renewable Fuel
07/23/08 Electricity-Storage Projects May Finally Start Moving Again
07/16/08 Dispute Between Regulators Puts Powerplant Project at Risk
07/16/08 MIT Students Develop More Efficient Solar Concentrator
07/11/08 URS Bests Field in Huge U.K. Nuke Plant Decommission Job
07/09/08 U.K. Pushes Renewable Energy
07/02/08 Undeveloped Interior Is Focus of Brazil's Hydro Plans
07/02/08 Hydro Development Is Seen as Fast Way To Meeting Needs
07/02/08 Revised Solar Station Plan To Include Solar-Gas Hybrid
06/18/08 Israel Begins the Switch From Coal to Natural Gas
06/18/08 Italy Moves Toward Program To Build New Reactors
06/11/08 Alaska Shakes the Dust Off Discarded Susitna Project
06/04/08 Australian Plant To Generate 154 MW with Photovoltaics
06/04/08 Tough Market Draws Players While Driving Others Away
05/14/08 DOE Says Wind Could Supply 20% of U.S. Energy Needs
05/14/08 High Oil Prices Bring a Smile To Carbon-Dioxide Producers
04/30/08 Air Force Seeks Secure Domestic Source For Fuel
04/23/08 Texas' Big Wind-Farm Plan
04/23/08 Plans for Africa Hydro Project, World's Largest, Move Forward
04/23/08 New Plant Applications Surge Toward Expected Total of 19
04/23/08 New $30-Billion Proposal Competes To Deliver Gas
04/21/08 World Energy Council Outlines Congo Hydropower Scheme
04/09/08 Shaw and Westinghouse Negotiating for Three Sites
04/02/08 Israel Seeks Bidders For $700-Million Tender
03/26/08 Kansas Governor Vetoes Project
03/26/08 $20-Billion Investment Will Move Oil-Sands Crude South
03/26/08 Australian Well Taps Hot Rock In Possible Commercial First
03/19/08 Boulder, Colo., Picked To Be Nation's First 'Smart Grid' City
03/19/08 Varied Approaches Wring New Power from Waters
03/12/08 Construction Set To Move On West Virginia Electric Plant
03/05/08 Florida Investigates Blackout
03/05/08 U.S. State Dept. Set To Clear Link to Canadian Oil Sands
03/05/08 Sudden Drop in Wind Energy Finds Texas Ready To Act
03/05/08 Deepwater Sites Are Opened In German North Sea Areas
02/28/08 House Clears $17.6 Billion in Renewable Energy Tax Breaks
02/27/08 Cause Sought for Power Failure That Put 2.5 Million in the Dark
02/27/08 $10 Billion of Projects Bring Natural Gas to Europe
02/27/08 Uncertainty Over Carbon Has Coal Plants Stymied
02/27/08 New Orleans Gas Utility Rushes Line Replacement To Beat Corrosion Clock
02/27/08 Arizona Utility Aims High for Solar Array
02/20/08 Alberta's Booming Oil Sands Boast Cold Weather, Hot Market
02/20/08 Production Plans Pick Up Steam
02/20/08 When Temperature Plunges, Production Falls, Too
02/20/08 Alberta's Worker Shortage Boosts Apprentice Program
02/20/08 Oil Sands Ramp-Up Taxing Suncor's Staffing Ability
02/20/08 State-Federal Partnership To Make Hawaii a Model
02/13/08 Looking To Charge Customers For Work Sooner, Not Later
02/06/08 U.S., France and Japan Ink Pact To Build Safer, Cleaner Reactors
02/06/08 Expansion by Producers Stretches Alberta Workforce
02/06/08 Cancellation, Postponement Mark Nuclear Sector's Revival
02/06/08 DOE Drops Clean-Coal Plant To Focus on Carbon Capture
02/05/08 Utilities Want to Charge Ratepayers Sooner, Not Later
02/04/08 Suncor Expansion To Stretch Labor Force
01/31/08 Energy Dept. Shifts Focus to Carbon Capture from FutureGen Program
01/23/08 Permits Issued for In-Stream Turbines In the Mississippi
01/23/08 Subsea Cables Tie European Electric Grids More Closely
01/16/08 Feds OK Wind-Farm Project
01/16/08 LNG Terminal's Approval Sparks Lawsuit Threats From Neighbors
01/16/08 U.K. Prepares To Permit New Fleet of Reactors
01/10/08 British Govt. Clears a Path For Next Nuclear Generation
01/09/08 American Firm Carefully Clears Bombed-Out Bridge
01/09/08 Longest, Most Powerful Line Will Apply New Technology
01/09/08 'Landmark' License Issued for Wave-Energy Project
01/09/08 Alaska Likes TransCanada's Proposal for Prudhoe Gas Line
01/09/08 $750-Million Contract Boosts Gulf Hurricane Cleanup Work
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