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12/28/2007 Tampa Bay's Desal Woes Teach An International Lesson

12/27/2007 EPA Denies Waiver For California Rule

12/27/2007 Everglades Work Slowed By January Property Tax Vote

12/27/2007 Tampa Bay Desalination Plant Certified After Passing Tests

12/21/2007 CH2M Hill Founder Burke Hayes Dies at 95

12/20/2007 Tampa Bay Water's Troubled Desal Plant Passes Tests, at Last

12/12/2007 Canada To Tighten Effluent Standards

12/05/2007 Louisiana Risk-Model Review Shows Need for Clarity

12/05/2007 Utility Settles Suits and Claims in Taum Sauk Collapse

12/05/2007 Democrats' Energy Bill Includes $21 Billion in Breaks

11/28/2007 Utilities Fear Low Marks on Compliance

11/28/2007 EPA Releases Hypoxia Plan

11/28/2007 Methane Gas To Power New Hampshire Campus

11/28/2007 Levee School Begins In Louisiana

11/27/2007 La. Hosts Professional Levee Development Program

11/21/2007 Gulf Coast Facilities Expand Using Maine Trades' Skills

11/15/2007 Maryland: Poplar Island Restoration Gets $192 Million in WRDA

11/15/2007 California: WRDA Provides $444 Million For Sacramento Dam Spillway

11/15/2007 Florida: WRDA Aids Everglades Projects, Miami Dredging

11/15/2007 Wisconsin: Milwaukee Official Sees Huge Water Infrastructure Needs

11/14/2007 More Than 900 New Projects Are in Play

11/02/2007 Quick Turnaround: Biloxi Bridge Delivered in Record Time

11/02/2007 Bush Vetoes WRDA Bill, Pols Predict Override

10/31/2007 Southern California Blazes Bring Scorching Results

10/25/2007 BP to Pay $60-Million Fine For Explosion, Oil Spills

10/24/2007 Tempest on a Trailer Delivers Big Storms on Demand

10/22/2007 Labor of Love: Journalists Keep New Orleans' Story Alive

10/17/2007 Unstable San Diego Hill Was Monitored

 

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10/17/2007 Deep-Storage Regulations To Be Developed for Carbon

10/10/2007 San Diego Landslide Trashes Neighborhood

10/09/2007 Utility Agrees to Costly Air Pollution Settlement

09/28/2007 Boh Executive Works to Woo Insurers

09/26/2007 $9-Billion Cocktail Proposed for California's Thirst

09/26/2007 New Orleans Levee Board Backs Corps Plan

09/26/2007 Stopping Sprawl Will Aid Planet

09/21/2007 Conditions Met, NOLA Board Backs Corps Pumping Plan

09/25/2007 Senate Clears $23-Billion WRDA, But Veto Threatened

09/12/2007 Court Blocks Water For Nevada Site

08/29/2007 Levee and Floodwall Load Test Is Handled With Extreme Care

08/29/2007 New Risk Maps Predict Effects of Improvements to Flood Protections

08/29/2007 Answering Critics: Corps Reconstruction Leaders in New Orelans Have Their Say

08/24/2007 New Risk Maps Predict Effects of Improvements

08/22/2007 Cleanup and Reconstruction From Peru Quake May Take Years

08/16/2007 DOE Orders Stopped Hanford Work to Restart

08/15/2007 Free Online Tool Calculates a Building's Embodied Carbon

08/01/2007 Getting a Grip On California Levee Risk

07/25/2007 Israel Seeks To Double Nation's Desalination Capacity by 2013

07/25/2007 California Tries To Buck Odds Until Levee System Is Fixed

07/17/2007 Quake Damage to Japan Plant: Minor or Major Concern?

07/11/2007 New Report Parses Hurricane Defenses

07/10/2007 Alaska Facilities Confront Rapidly Warming Temperatures

07/11/2007 New Report Parses Hurricane Defenses

07/10/2007 Alaska Facilities Confront Rapidly Warming Temperatures

07/05/2007 Nation's Center Is Under Water But Infrastructure Damage Is Light

07/04/2007 New Risk and Reliability Tools May Drive Policy Shift

06/25/2007 High Court Sides With EPA, Industry In Endangered Species Act

06/22/2007 EPA to Propose Tighter Ozone Standard

06/21/2007 Examples of Risk and Reliability Products

06/21/2007 Power Hazard Forecasting Tool Gives New Orleans New Map

06/14/2007 Israel To Lift Restrictions on Plant Development

06/13/2007 Internal Corps Report Cites Procurement Flaws

06/13/2007 Large Water Tanks Spur Safety Questions

06/12/2007 High Court Upholds Company's Right to Recover Cleanup Costs

06/07/2007 EPA-Corps Document Aims to Clarify Wetlands Authority

06/06/2007 New Orleans Disaster Blamed On Decades of Bad Decisions

06/06/2007 Live Tapping Method Takes Pain Out of Pipe Surgery

06/04/2007 NOLA Inspection Tour Focuses on Construction

06/02/2007 Corps Chief Promises NOLA 100-Yr Protection by 2011

05/31/2007 Bush Proposes International Greenhouse Gas Limits

05/30/2007 Load Ratings of Drainage Canals Become Sore Point in New Orleans

05/30/2007 Thirsty Oil Sands May Threaten River

05/30/2007 New York Awards Filtration Construction to High Bidder

05/25/2007 17th St. Canal O.K., Corps Says, But Not So for London Ave.

05/23/2007 Asbestos Abatement Approach Found More Efficient in EPA Test

05/23/2007 Water Resources Bill, the Sequel, Heads to House-Senate Conference

05/17/2007 Senate Passes $13.9-Billion WRDA Bill

05/14/2007 Las Vegas Builds Sustainable 'Central Park'

05/14/2007 ACP Releases First Tender for Panama Canal Excavation

05/09/2007 Scientists Bemoan Current Policies

05/09/2007 Tampa Bay Is Ready To Test If Fixed Plant Is Worth Its Salt

05/09/2007 Diversion Tunnel Plugged, Brazilian Dam Goes Online

05/09/2007 Shallow Soil Mixing Used For Old Gas-Plant Cleanup

05/09/2007 Experts Scheme on Armoring New Orleans' Achilles' Heel

05/05/2007 U.N. Climate Change Report Calls for $20 Trillion Investment

05/02/2007 Levee Board Holds Corps To Peer-Review Standards

05/02/2007 Washington State Establishes Puget Sound Cleanup Agency

04/25/2007 Mayor Proposes Greener Gotham

04/25/2007 Desalination Gets Second Look To Counter Drought

04/25/2007 New Orleans Flood Defenses "Blame Report" Due Out Soon

04/20/2007 Levee Board Gives Corps Conditional Permission for Levee Load Test

04/18/2007 Shallow Flooding Increased To Dampen Owens Lake Bed

04/12/2007 Corps Wants Coffer Dam Test, Nola Flood Board Wants Action

04/11/2007 Planning Process Starts by Listening

04/11/2007 Report Cites Continuing Need For Chlorine-Gas Security

04/07/2007 Honolulu Honey Water Gets EPA Raspberry

03/24/2007 Java Mud Volcano Shackled with Balls and Chains

03/19/2007 Bad Levee Probe Draws Lawyers

03/19/2007 New Nationwide Permits Raise Jurisdictional Question

03/19/2007 House Passes Hike in SRF Aid

03/19/2007 Feds Issue Report on 2006 Fatal Wastewater Plant Accident

03/19/2007 Elwha River Dam Removals Move Step Closer With Permit

03/15/2007 Israeli City Issues Desalination Tender

03/12/2007 Coalbed Methane Producers Have Some New Options

03/09/2007 House Passes $14-Billion Clean Water Bill

03/05/2007 Severe, Extended Droughts Seen for Colorado River Basin

03/05/2007 Clean Water Funding Bill Heads for House Floor Vote

03/05/2007 Senators Pledge to Produce Water Resources Bill in March

02/28/2007 EBRD Blacklists Lahmayer Over Lesotho Bribery

02/26/2007 Seeds Will Be Planted Deep in Permafrost for Security

02/26/2007 Yosemite Park Restoration Awaits Appeals Court Ruling

02/19/2007 Vulnerable Coastal Zones Are Focus Of Dutch Forum

02/06/2007 When the Seas Rise: Californians Confront Tough Issues

02/05/2007 Commercial Tsunami Warning Buoy Launched

02/05/2007 Interview: New Corps Chief Nominee Van Antwerp

02/03/2007 Hawaii Legislature Acts on Dam Report

02/02/2007 Bush Names Van Antwerp as New Corps Leader

01/30/2007 Corps Counts 146 Levees as Deficient

01/29/2007 High Court Opts Out Of Dirty-Water Debate

01/22/2007 Engineer To Lead Regional Board

01/15/2007 Corps Awards New Contract For Protecting Louisiana

01/15/2007 St. Louis Is Spending Billions To Shore Up Shaky Systems

01/15/2007 $1.95-Billion Improvement for Puerto Rico Water

01/11/2007 California Takes Big Step Toward Global Warming Solution

01/08/2007 Appeals Court Strikes Down EPA Ozone Regulation

 


 

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