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12/25/2006 Manure-Effluent Bath Cuts Perchlorate Contamination

12/22/2006 Appeals Court Rejects EPA Ozone Rule

12/18/2006 Corps Says MR. GO Should GO

12/18/2006 Report Says Tame CSOs To Keep Great Lakes Clean

12/17/2006 Seattle Storms Cause Infrastructure Damage

12/11/2006 Utilities, EPA and Environmental Groups Battle Over Pollutant Control Definitions

12/11/2006 Kitchen Grease Increases Plant's Energy Production

12/05/2006 Environmentalists Want A Stop for Mr. Go

12/04/2006 Huge New Contracts Planned at Hanford

12/04/2006 Developer Accepts Superfund Cleanup To Speed Reuse

11/30/2006 Supreme Court Hears Global Warming Case

11/22/2006 DOE Proposes Fine for CH2M Hanford For Two Nuclear Safety Violations

11/22/2006 Warner Challenges Inhofe On Senate Environment Panel

11/17/2006 EPA Enforcement Shows Mixed Results in FY 2006

11/13/2006 $1.1 Billion Is Apparent Bid For New York City Plant

11/06/2006 Billions Will Be Required For California System Repair

11/02/2006 Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Clean Air Case

10/30/2006 Corps To Reveal New Storm Risks

10/23/2006 Sharp Hawaii Quake Leaves Cracked Roads, Closed Port

10/23/2006 Full-Scale Bridge Components Tested for Seismic Stability

10/23/2006OSHA Hits Pittsburgh, Boston Firms for Willful Violations

10/16/2006Brazilian Contract Plugging Diversion Tunnel that Failed

10/11/2006 DOE's Revamped Site Plan Shaves 20 Years at Fernald

10/04/2006 Tampa Bay Water Plant Nearly Ready for Restart

10/02/2006 DOE's Revamped Site Plan Shaves 20 Years at Fernald

09/28/2006 Pols Say Water Resources Bill Won't be Done By October Break

09/25/2006 Rock Anchors Stabilize Structure on Foundation

09/25/2006 Settlement Prepares the Way For Potential $800-Million Job

09/22/2006 EPA Issues Final Rule to Curb Soot, Dust

09/18/2006 Delays Over Surety Terms Make Job a One-Bid Wonder

09/18/2006 Hanford Price Tag Hits $12.2 Billion

09/14/2006 Three Chinese Students Win Stockholm Junior Water Prize

09/04/2006 Gulf Coast Rebirth Starts In Casting Yard

09/04/2006 Katrina Anniversary Draws Calls and Vows for Change

09/04/2006 California's Largest Effort Restores Old Oil Field

09/04/2006 Indian Project Will Solve Decades-Old Water Problem

09/04/2006 Indonesia To Add Warning System

09/01/2006 Pipeline Prudence: An Interview with Alfred Crouch on Pipeline Defect Detection

08/29/2006 One Year After Katrina, Emergency Pump Repairs

08/29/2006 Ominous Reports: The 1927 Mississippi Flood

08/28/2006 Excavation Complete On Manhattan Tunnel

08/28/2006 Gates Have Fluid Specs, Tight Site, Small Tolerances

08/25/2006 Federal Court Turns Down Challenge to Columbia River Dredging

08/25/2006 Northeastern States Take Modest Step To Cut Greenhouse Gasses 

08/14/2006 New Orleans Gates Are Hung As Call Rises for Taller Ones

08/14/2006 Airport Owners Raise Red Flag On 'Green' Movement Lapse

08/14/2006 New York Port Builders Sow Seeds for Greener Future

08/10/2006 Court Rejects Nevada's Challenge to Yucca Mountain Rail Plan

08/07/2006 Superfund Snags Canadian Smelter

07/31/2006 New Re-gasifying Process Expected To Save Producer Millions

07/31/2006 Big New Orleans Plan Is Pushing Innovation

07/31/2006 Water Projects Bill Headed To House-Senate Negotiations

07/28/2006 Brazilian Dam Fix to Delay Opening Until Next Year

07/24/2006 Bureau of Reclamation Veteran Nominated to Head Agency

07/24/2006 Indian Dam Project Resumes after Court Ruling Ends Delay

07/24/2006 New England Tries Desalination To Treat Brackish Water

07/20/2006 Katrina Tailwinds: Corps Restructures To Manage $5.7 Billion in Civil Works

07/20/2006 Senate Passes Water Projects Bill, Adds New Reviews for Corps Projects

07/17/2006 Hetch Hetchy System Launches Upgrade

07/17/2006 Corps Blames Designs, Modifications for Missed Deadlines

07/17/2006 Review Processes Mesh for I-5 Plans

07/17/2006 Corps Stabilizes Earthen Dam To Withstand Midwest Quake

07/17/2006 California To Study Hetch Hetchy Replacement

07/10/2006 North Slope Oil and Gas Spills Expose Aging Pipelines Woes

07/10/2006 Puerto Rico Utility Hammered With $10 Million in Fines

07/10/2006 Extreme Rains Test East Coast Systems

07/03/2006 Water System Impaired By Sagging of Inflatable Wall

07/03/2006 Engineers Move To Find Out Why a Lake Lost its Water

06/26/2006 Nitrogen System To Clear Seine, But More Will Be Required

06/19/2006 Supreme Court Decision Leaves Wetlands Jurisdiction Murky

06/15/2006 FEMA Money Flows Where Pressure Goes

06/12/2006 System Failure Gets Blame In New Orleans

06/06/2006 IPET: Corps at Fault

06/06/2006 No Flood of Work In New Orleans

06/05/2006 Florida Eyes Tougher Wind Code

06/02/2006 U.S., Alaska Seek $92 Million More for "Exxon Valdez" Oil Spill

06/01/2006 Corps Falls Short on Levee Fix, Vows to "Do the Right Thing"

05/29/2006 System Failure In New Orleans

05/23/2006 Controlled Blast Topples PGEs Trojan Tower

05/22/2006 Assessment Proposal Filed For Bhopal Remediation

05/16/2006 Army Corps Will Miss Flood Protection Deadline

05/15/2006 Supreme Court Upholds State Hydro Dam Regulation

05/15/2006 Florida Lake Report Stirs Old Fears

05/15/2006 States Landfills Are Off-Limits For Construction and Demolition

05/04/2006 Bush Selects Alaskan to Head USGS

05/01/2006 Tough Jobs, Long Hours and Lonely Sites: Levee Reconstruction
                      Grinds On

05/02/2006 Sure You Drink Bottled Water,But Do You Know Why?

05/01/2006 Katrina Analysis Has Designers Building Faster and Smarter

04/26/2006 Utilities in Alabama and North Dakota Settle Clean Air Disputes

04/24/2006 California City Claims Largest Natural Treatment System

04/24/2006 New Orleans Flood Base Elevation To Count on Levees Again

04/24/2006 Hanford Vitrification Project Generates Heat Over Costs

04/24/2006 Sureties Wouldnt Support Bidding

04/17/2006 Two Desalination Plants Could Cost $540 Million

04/17/2006 Officials Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season

04/17/2006 California Fights Hard Against Rising Tide

04/10/2006 Raising Levees Is Even More Costly

03/31/2006 San Diego-based Contractor's Bid Apparent All-American Canal Winner

03/28/2006 EPA, Corps Propose Changes in Wetlands Replacement Rules

03/27/2006 Floodwall Design Left Scant Safety Margin

03/27/2006 Federal Court Strikes Down EPA New Source Regulation

03/27/2006 Flood Threat Detailed As Funding Initiatives Fail

03/20/2006 Investment Firm Offers To Shoulder Bhopals Cost

03/17/2006 Kempthorne Nominated to Head Interior Dept.

03/13/2006 Monolithic Cure Sparks Interest of Levee Engineers

03/13/2006 Feds Clamp Down on Developer Of Large Kansas City Project

03/13/2006 Many Look To Tax Credits in Voluntary Emissions Efforts

03/06/2006  Millions Sought For California Protection

03/02/2006 Corps Tries Soft Approach To Control Bank Erosion

02/27/2006 Concrete Lining Stops Leaks But Neighbors Sue for Water

02/27/2006 Pilot Plant Desalinates Seawater with Less Energy

02/17/2006 Corps Culpable for Flooding? Answers to the Accusations

02/13/2006 Court to Review CALFED Program

02/13/2006 Salinity Solutions Proposed As Treatment Debate Drugs

02/13/2006 EPA Agreements Limit Fines and Allow Monitoring of Farms

02/09/2006 Corps of Engineers FY '07 Budget Would Drop by a Third

01/30/2006 Snow Loads Studied For Clues to Polish Roof Collapse

01/23/2006 United Kingdom Revs Up for Next Five Yeas of Water-Wastewater Construction

01/23/2006 Effort to Raise New Orleans Storm Defenses Turns to Canal Closure Gates

01/16/2006 Angled Wells Are Tapping Big Muddy’s Sweet Spot

01/16/2006 U.S. Company To Build in Ukraine

01/16/2006 Shaw Group Wins Delayed DOE Contract at Uranium Site

01/05/2006 DOE Awards Kentucky Cleanup Contract to Portage-Shaw Group Team