| 07/31/2010 | Three Dead as Apartment Building Collapses in Italy
Associated Press/AP Online
ROME - An apartment building collapsed overnight and killed three people in their sleep in a town in southern Italy, police said Saturday. |
| 07/31/2010 | Cleanup of Mich. River Oil Spill Will Take Months
Associated Press/AP Online
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - Officials investigating the cause of a huge oil spill along a major river in southern Michigan say it will take months to clean up the mess, and damage to wetlands and wildlife may last considerably longer. |
| 07/31/2010 | Stimulus Bonds Jump-Start Chippewa Lake Project
Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio)
July 31--LAFAYETTE TWP -- Federal stimulus tax-exempt bonds are being credited with helping the Chippewa Landing Resort project break ground in September. |
| 07/31/2010 | L.A. Pushing To Become Nation's Mass Transit Leader
Associated Press/AP Online
LOS ANGELES - The region famous for jilting the street car to take up a love affair with the automobile is trying to rekindle its long ago romance with commuter rail. |
| 07/31/2010 | California Will Ask Feds For Up to $1B For High-Speed Rail
San Mateo County Times
July 31--The state will ask the federal government for $700 million to $1 billion to help build a California high-speed railroad, including cash for projects in the Bay Area. |
| 08/01/2010 | Feds Warned Company in Mich. Spill About Pipeline
Associated Press/AP Online
DETROIT - U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a document released Saturday. |
| 07/31/2010 | Mass. AG Gets Cape Wind To Lower Proposed Rates
Boston Herald
Attorney General Martha Coakley has strong-armed Cape Wind Associates into lowering the proposed rates for its controversial offshore wind farm after sometimes bitter negotiations over the project's multibillion-dollar costs. |
| 07/30/2010 | Istanbul Landmark Hotel Seeks Return to Glory Era
Associated Press/AP Online
ISTANBUL - It was the last stop on the Orient Express, a grand hotel with Istanbul's first electric elevator where artists and aristocrats sipped champagne beneath chandeliers as the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the world drifted toward war. |
| 07/30/2010 | Incoming BP CEO: Time For 'Scaleback' in Cleanup
Associated Press/AP Online
BILOXI, Miss. - BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he added that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever. |
| 07/30/2010 | Foes of Seattle's Highway 99 Tunnel Seek Public Vote
The Seattle Times
July 30--A citizens group filed an initiative Thursday to seek a public vote in February on the proposed Highway 99 tunnel. |
| 07/30/2010 | ConnDOT: Slow Go For High-Speed New England Rail
Associated Press/AP Online
HARTFORD, Conn. - An ambitious intercity rail system in New England is intended to reduce air traffic congestion, get cars off the highways and spur economic development. |
| 07/30/2010 | Russia Plans to Spend $200M on Wind Farm
United Press International
Russia says it plans to spend $200 million building the country's largest wind-power plant in the southern Krasnodar Territory near the Black Sea. |
| 07/30/2010 | Officials: Corrosion Found on Pipeline in Mich. Oil Spill
Detroit Free Press
July 30--WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators say earlier tests found corrosion along the pipeline that sent thousands of gallons of oil rushing into the Kalamazoo River this week and that, as recently as two weeks ago, its owner was talking about replacing pipe sections. |
| 07/29/2010 | Energy Sec. Hails Innovative Hawaii Wind Project
Tulsa World
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says a wind farm planned for Oahu island in Hawaii is using innovative technology and could set an example for other wind farms across the country. |
| 07/30/2010 | Official: One Person Dead in L.A. Building Explosion
Associated Press/AP Online
LOS ANGELES - A suspected natural gas explosion Friday at an industrial plastic-coating shop collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, fire officials said. |
| 07/29/2010 | Miami Approves Skyscraper-Size Electronic Billboards in Downtown
The Miami Herald
July 29--Miami commissioners Thursday approved a controversial plan to allow a developer to erect two skyscraper-size electronic billboards on top of new parking garages next to the Arsht Center. |
| 07/30/2010 | Disney Sells Miramax to Tutor-Perini CEO For $660M
Los Angeles Times
After months of negotiations with various buyers that failed to bear fruit, Walt Disney Co. said late Thursday that it has sold its Miramax Films unit in a deal that severs the independent movie pioneer's 17-year association with the Burbank studio. |
| 07/29/2010 | N.J. Announces School Projects Approved For State Grants
The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 29--Thirty-five South Jersey school districts are eligible for state funding aimed at construction and maintenance projects, state education officials announced Wednesday. |
| 07/29/2010 | Floods Wash Chemicals Into Northeast China River
Associated Press/AP Online
BEIJING - Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China on Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than decade. |
| 07/29/2010 | Dam Project Faces Opposition in Nevada County
Appeal-Democrat
July 29--Years before its possible construction, a dam proposed by a Sutter County water agency already has enemies arrayed against it. |
| 07/29/2010 | Gulf Cleanup Will Change Once Oil Stops For Good
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW ORLEANS - The government's point man for the Gulf spill met with coastal parish officials Thursday to talk about what's next now that the oil has stopped flowing. |
| 07/29/2010 | PennDOT Faces Dec. Deadline on Rehab Planning of Ohio R. Bridge
Beaver County Times
July 29--The state Department of Transportation must complete planning this year for rehabilitation of the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge or risk losing the $21 million set aside by the federal government to fund the 20-year-old project. |
| 07/30/2010 | Past Problems For Company at Heart of Mich. Oil Spill
Associated Press/AP Online
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river boasts on its website of being "an industry leader in pipeline safety and integrity." |
| 07/29/2010 | Michigan Seeks Help in 'Inadequate' Spill Cleanup
Commercial Appeal, The
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - Michigan's governor on Wednesday sharply criticized attempts to contain a large oil spill making its way down the Kalamazoo River after the company responsible said it had redoubled its efforts to clean up the mess. |
| 07/28/2010 | Study: Iowa's I-JOBS Stimulus Plan Created 7K New Jobs
Associated Press/AP Online
DES MOINES, Iowa - An economic stimulus plan pushed by Gov. Chet Culver has created more than 7,000 new jobs since the program began, according to a study released Wednesday. |
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