environment news archive (2005)

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12/28/2005 Scientists Hope California Probe Yields Quake Clues

12/26/2005 Spending Plan Holds Promises for Levees

12/23/2005 EPA Recommends Stricter Particulate Regs, But Stops Short of Panel Guidelines

12/23/2005 Bechtel-UC Team Wins Bid to Manage Los Alamos Lab

12/22/2005 Alaska Drilling Dropped as Congress Approves $29 Billion for Hurricane Relief

12/22/2005 Independent Panel Named to Investigate Missouri Dam Collapse

12/26/2005 Spending Plan Holds Promises for Levees

12/21/2005 Senate Sidetracks Oil Drilling in Alaska Refuge

12/20/2005 California Clean Air Measure Roils Builders

12/20/2005 Senate Confirms House Aide as Head of Superfund Office

12/19/2005 $32-billion for Hurricane Relief Hinges on Fate of Alaska Oil Provision

12/19/2005 $3 Billion Proposed for New Orleans Levee Work, But No Safety Guarantee

12/19/2005 Sheet Piles Pulled in Big Easy Measure Up: Test Tools Don’t

12/15/2005 Equipment Failure Possible Cause of Missouri Dam Breach

12/15/2005 DuPont to Pay $10-Million Penalty in Settlement With EPA

12/05/2005 Toxic Chemical Spill After Explosion Leaves City Looking for Water

11/28/2005 Peer Review Panel Named

11/28/2005 New Transmission Proposed To Break Western Bottleneck

11/28/2005 Food Processors Pressed For Better Discharge Solutions

11/21/2005 New Process May Solve Old Coalbed Methane Problem

11/21/2005 Denver Plant Keeps Running While Critical Conduit Is Fixed

11/14/2005 Power of Water Use Is Growing Globally

11/14/2005 City Turns frm Rescue To Reconstruction

11/14/2005 Booming Parched Cities Trigger Search for New Water Sources

11/11/2005 Louisiana Rebuilding Conference Calls for Unity on Goals and Plans

11/10/2005 Alaska Refuge Energy Provision Dropped from House Budget Bill

11/07/2005 Court Says Fish Need Help Now

11/07/2005 Plate Piles Show Promise in Stabilizing California Slopes

11/03/2005 Engineers Hear Reports of "Malfeasance" in New Orleans Levee Construction

11/03/2005 Senate Votes to Permit Oil and Gas Drilling in Arctic Refuge

11/02/2005 Florida Building Officials Commission Study of Panhandle Codes

11/01/2005 Wanted: New Ideas for a Thirsty Planet

10/31/2005 Bush Seeks to Shift $17 Billion to Rebuild Gulf Coast Infrastructure

10/31/2005 Washington Waives the Rules For Repair Work Contracting

10/27/2005 Industry, Environmental Groups Agree on Regulatory Guidance for Sewage Diversions

10/27/2005 Industry, Environmental Groups Agree on Regulatory Guidance for Sewage Diversions

10/24/2005 Agencies Must Revisit Northwest Hydropower Plan

10/24/2005 ExxonMobil To Pay Millions on Air Fix

10/24/2005 Membrane Treatment Beats Conventional Design’s Price

10/24/2005 Lesotho Diversion Reaches Crossroad

10/24/2005 First DOE Weapon Site Meets Cleanup Target

10/17/2005 GE Finalizes Cleanup Plan For PCBs in Hudson River

10/17/2005 Inquest Finds Signs of Soil Movement at Breach Sites

10/17/2005 Everglades Fix Needs More Cash

10/17/2005 North Dakota Starts Pumping Following International Deal

10/14/2005 New Orleans Levee Repairs: Contracts, but No Work

10/13/2005 Restoring Puget Sound Could Cost $10 Billion

10/07/2005 FEMA Cites Contractual Right to Rebid After $50,000 has been Paid

10/06/2005 Final Bid Due for Water District Anti-Algae Contract

10/03/2005 Bush Nominates White House Counsel to Supreme Court

10/03/2005 For the Most Part,Texas Takes Rita’s Winds in Stride

10/03/2005 Experts Are Eager To Analyze Levees

10/03/2005 Myriad Gulf Coast Investigations Are in Need of a Coordinator

09/30/2005 A Superintendent Reflects on Flood and Fire

09/29/2005 Corps Says Restoring Levees to Pre-Katrina Strength Would
Cost $1.6 Billion

09/28/2005 Full Days for Durr CEO

09/26/2005 Levee Damage Spells Long-Term Risks

09/26/2005 No Quick Fixes for Utilities In Mississippi and Louisiana

09/26/2005 Local Firms Cope with Losses, But Many Still Aid Recovery

09/26/2005 Feds and States Unveil Plan To Rid Area of Waste Piles

09/23/2005 Boh Bros. Foreman Back to Dozer Duty for Cleanup

09/22/2005 Louisiana Senators Propose $250-Billion Katrina Reconstruction Package, But Other Lawmakers Seek Offsetting Cuts

09/18/2005 New Storm Possibly Headed for New Orleans

09/16/2005 New Orleans Drainage Effort Paying Off, Corps Says

09/15/2005 New Job for Workers Is Saving Their Hometown

09/09/2005 Corps: More Pump Stations Working

09/09/2005 FEMA Chief Brown Replaced as Head of Hurricane Respons

09/09/2005 Corps Lends a Hand to Repair Mississippi Coast's Demolished Infrastructure

09/07/2005 New Job for Workers Is Saving Their Hometownh

09/07/2005 Coastal Alabama Also Suffers Katrina's Wrath

09/06/2005 From Vicksburg War Room to Front Lines in New Orleans, the Fight
Goes On

09/06/2005 Sturdy Flood Defenses Shield U.K., Netherlands

09/05/2005 Katrina Takes Out Region’s Power Supply

09/05/2005 Regional Group Plans End Run To Cut Carbon Emissions

09/05/2005 Swamped City Faces Reality as Levees Failn

09/04/2005 Police Kill at Least Five in Shootout Near New Orleans Job Site

09/04/2005 Police Kill at Least Five in Shootout Near New Orleans Job Site

09/04/2005 Draining New Orleans Easier Said Than Done

09/02/2005 New Orleans Water System's Recovery May Take a Year

09/02/2005 Congress Rushes to Approve $10.5 Billion in Hurricane Relief Aid

09/02/2005 Canal Closure Works Proceed, Pump Stations Are Next

09/01/2005 Corps Officials Say New Orleans' Flood Walls Were in Good Condition

09/01/2005 House Says It Has Enough Relief Funds in Near Term, Congress Ends Recess to Consider Emergency, Longer-Range Aid

09/01/2005 Corps Plugging Gaps in Floodwall System, Opening Others

08/31/2005 Federal Agencies Step Up Relief Efforts, Waive Regulations

08/31/2005 Lack of Lifting Slings Slows Levee Repair As Water Levels Drop

08/30/2005 Corps Scrambling to Plug New Orleans Floodwall Breaches

08/29/2005 Katrina Slams Gulf Coast

08/22-29/2005 $100-Million Agreement Settles Milltown Dam’s Fate

08/26/2005 Katrina Collapses Miami Overpass Under Construction

08/23/2005 Complex Pact Clears Way for Montanas Milltown Dam Removal To Begin in 2006

08/22/2005 Los Angeles Utility Acts on River Restoration Under Court Order and Fine

08/19/2005 Water Main Floods Downtown Pittsburgh

08/17/2005 New Emission Regulations To Cost California Dairies Millions Site

08/17/2005 Pollution and Neglect Are Choking the Great Lakes

08/15/2005 Aerojet Parent Moves to Remediate California Superfund Site

08/15/2005 Navy Research Pays Off With Water Purification Unit

08/15/2005 With Better Hurricane Forecasting Comes Better Damage Predictions

08/11/2005 Nevada Officials Slam Proposed Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard

08/11/2005 Nevada Officials Slam Proposed Yucca Mountain Radiation Standard

08/09/2005 California Utility Hires Seismic Mapping Team to Predict Tsumani Threat

08/08/2005 New Seismic Understanding Prompts Fixes and Upgrades

08/08/2005 Comfortable in Seafloor Test, Kelp Is Fit with Bigger Bed

08/01/2005 Lake Drainage Scheme Sparks International Tiff

08/01/2005 Great Lakes Cleanup Plan Moves Ahead

07/25/2005 House Approves $12-Billion Corps Authorization Measure

07/22/2005 Nominee for DOE Cleanup Post Advances in Senate

07/18/2005 Thirsty New Jersey Township Working to Recharge Aquifer

07/15/2005 New Indictments in Sewer Scheme

07/15/2005 House Approves $12-Billion Water Resources Bill

07/11/2005 California Fire Marshall Fines Kinder Morgan $500,000 in Walnut Creek Blast

07/11/2005 Dutch Firm ARCADIS Expands U.S. Practice

07/11/2005 Five States Put Heat On Utility As Powerplant Issue Boils

07/05/2005 Tsunami Teams Using Stop-Gap Warnings

07/04/2005 Largest-Ever UV Plant OK’d For New York City Supply

06/28/2005 Columbia River Deepening Begins After Lawsuits Thrown Out

06/28/2005 California Coastal Commission Permitting Authority Upheld

06/27/2005 Utility Industry Focuses on Infrastructure Funding Issue

06/23/2005 House Committee Clears $10-Billion Water Resources Bill

06/20/2005 Landslide Prevention Measures Are Looking Up In Canada

06/20/2005 Another Federal Ruling Weakens Clean Air Act Policy

06/17/2005 Senate Panel Boosts 2006 Funding for Corps

06/17/2005 West Coast Quake Triggers Tsunami Warning System Funds

06/14/2005 In Canada, Landslide Prevention Measures Are Looking Up

06/13/2005 FERC OKs Test Program For East River Hydro Project

06/10/2005 Senate Panel Approves Small Hike for 2006 Clean Water Revolving

06/08/2005 Smog Alert: Federal Judge Exempts Alabama Coal-burners from New Source Provisions

06/07/2005 Engineers Probe Southern California Slide Zone

06/06/2005 FERC OKs Test Program For East River Hydro Project

06/06/2005 Columbia River System Slammed

06/06/2005 Bechtel Ups Projected Cost Of Hanford Processing Plant

06/06/2005 Bank To Require WCD Compliance

06/06/2005 London’s Looming Shortages Prompt New Supply Scheme

06/03/2005 Bostick to Become Corps of Engineers' Deputy Chief

05/31/2005 Federal Judge Sends Salmon Plan Back to the Drawing Board

05/30/2005 California Rock Has Builders Stepping Up Dust Abatement

05/30/2005 EPA Sewer Overflow Decision Opens Gates for Water Work

05/23/2005 New EPA Rule Will Generate $15 Billion in Retrofit Work

05/19/2005 DOE Insider Nominated to Lead Cleanup Program

05/13/2005 Woodley Confirmed to Top DOD Civil Works Post

05/09/2005 Louisville Agrees on $600-Million Sewer System Upgrade

05/09/2005 Prosecutor: Ready-Mix Supplier Pleads Guilty

05/09/2005 Sacramento Sewer Expansion Deals with High Water Table

05/06/2005 Cal/OSHA Imposes Maximum Fine in Fatal Pipeline Explosion Aftermath

05/02/2005 ASCE Study Finds Seawalls Were Effective in Tsunami

04/29/2005 Senate Confirms Johnson as EPA Chief

04/28/2005 Senate 'Holds' Dropped, Clearing Path for Civil Works Nominee Woodley

04/25/2005 Corps Is Testing Concrete at Seven Oaks after Scour Problem

04/20/2005 Civil Works Nominee on Hold in Senate

04/19/2005 Corps Runs New Seven Oaks Dam Tests, After March Halt

04/18/2005 Sky Seems To Be the Limit For Ethanol Plants and Production

04/18/2005 Detroit Files Insurance Claim And Will Try Again on Outfall

04/14/2005 Senate Democrat Blocks EPA Nominee

04/14/2005 Senate Committee Approves Major Corps Water Resources Bill

04/13/2005 Senate Democrat Blocks EPA Nominee

04/11/2005 A Tsunami Hit on California Could Be Quick and Costly
Memo Warns

04/11/2005 Infighting Swamps Everglades Cleanup

03/29/2005 California Approves Biological Perchlorate Removal System

03/28/2005 Who Wants To Pay for Diesel Retrofits?

03/24/2005 Everglades Cleanup Behind Schedule, and Over Budget, Corps’s
Memo Warns

03/24/2005 CH2-WGI Team Snags Two Big Federal Cleanup Jobs

03/21/2005 $2-Billion Pipeline Proposed To Keep Las Vegas Growing

03/21/2005 Report: Canadian Smelter Pollutes

03/21/2005 EPA Plan for Powerplants Will Push Pollution Control Work

03/16/2005 Oil Drilling Plan in Alaska Wildlife Refuge Advances in Senate

03/15/2005 Mississippi Sues Memphis to Protect Water Source

03/14/2005 Cleaner-Burning Biodiesel Finds Production Home

03/14/2005 Big Fix for Five Midwest Plants

03/14/2005 DOE Pledges 'Fence to Fence' Cleanup of Los Alamos Site

03/14/2005 Chloramine Spat Pits White Pipe Backers against Copper

03/11/2005 Wyoming Finds Middle Ground Between Surface Land and Mineral Rights

03/07/2005 Cold War Mega-Plant Is Prepped for Reuse

03/04/2005 Bush Nominates Environmental Protection Agency Veteran to Head Agency

03/01/2005 ASCE Thai Tsunami Team Finds High-Density Poly Pipe Performed Well

03/01/2005 Sri Lankan Policeman Recalls "40-ft of Black Water"

02/28/2005 EPA Sandwiched Over Coal Cuts

02/17/2005 ASCE's Thai Team Inspects Damage Zone

02/17/2005 ASCE Reports from India

02/16/2005 Pakistani Dams Fail in Torrential Rains

02/14/2005 ASCE's Reports 4 and 5 from Sri Lanka

02/14/2005 Performance Code May Be on the Way

02/14/2005 Conservation Summit Seeks Agreement on River Use

02/08/2005 ASCE's Reports 2 and 3 from Thailand

02/07/2005 Seattle's Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant in Final Design

02/04/2005 Wave Hit Thai Utilities Hard

02/04/2005 ASCE's Field Team Examines Sri Lankan Infrastructure Damage

02/03/2005 Losing Bidders Challenge Florida Phosphate Plant Pact, Alleging Conflict of Interest

02/01/2005 California Consultant Not Crying Over Spilt Gas

02/01/2005 NAVFAC Awards HurricaneCleanup Contracts

02/01/2005 Engineer Reports from the Disaster Zone: Letter from Sri Lanka

01/28/2005 ConocoPhillips Reaches Accord with U.S. to Cut Refinery Emissions

01/27/2005 Naragansett Bay Gets $700-million Combined Sewer Upgrade

01/27/2005 Storm Brewing Over Tsunami Warning System Proposals

01/26/2005 Alabama and Corps Spar Over Water Storage

01/21/2005 U.S. Tsunami Relief Effort Will Recede

01/18/2005 Seepage Prompts Corps to Evacuate People Downstream of
California Dam

01/17/2005 Tsunami Assistance Turning to Long View

01/10/2005 Construction Industry Ramps Up Relief effort to Tsunami Victims

01/07/2005 Massive Loss of Life Prompts Calls for Expanded Tsunami Warning Net

01/06/2005 Reconstruction Forces Marshall For Daunting Task

01/03-10/2005 Waves of Help Flow To Tsunami Region

01/06/2005 Seabees Join Relief Effort In Indonesia

01/06/2005 Disaster Relief Network Team Keeps Relief Flowing