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EPA Can't Evade Enviro Firm's $2.7M Cleanup Site Pay Claim, US Court Says

January 10, 2021

Federal appeals panel orders lower court to restore August Mack Environmental's compensation bid, rejected on a technicality.

Fraud

Wisconsin Concrete Contractor Illegally Received $260M Using Federal DBE Program Front

Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee fraudulently used a front company to net federal DBE contracts

Annemarie Mannion

October 7, 2020

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Owners of Sonag Ready Mix of Milwaukee have been convicted or pled guilty to fraudulently reaping more than $260 million in government contracts intended to benefit minority and veteran-owned businesses.

Gas Pipeline Pushes Its Land Seizure Challenge to U.S. Supreme Court

Mary B. Powers

November 20, 2019

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PennEast case could change interpretations of eminent domain if it joins a pipeline decision already under high court review.

Settlement Will Close 780-MW Illinois Coal Plant by End of 2022

November 20, 2019

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Vistra Energy will provide $8.6 million for worker job training and clean energy transition

Embattled SNC-Lavalin Files Ethics Appeal, Realigns Structure

Debra K. Rubin

April 10, 2019

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Claiming officials did not have full details of its defense, Montreal design-build giant repushes to settle criminal bribe case; firm also gains $2.43 billion from sale of toll road stake

Schlitterbahn Waterparks co-owner Jeff Henry

Criminal Charges Dismissed Against Schlitterbahn Defendants in Death of Caleb Schwab

Jeff Yoders

March 6, 2019

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A state judge dismissed all charges against five defendants in connection with injuries to two women and the death of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab on a waterslide in Kansas City, Kan., in 2016.

Mass. High Court Reopens Door For Contractor To Seek Payment

June 20, 2018

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Massachusetts’ high court has ordered a state superior court to reassess facts in a pay dispute on an overbudget and late-running $90-million fiber-optic project for a state agency.

Maryland $5B Rail Job Paused by Court Appeal

June 7, 2017

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Purple Line light-rail building team to suspend new contract execution and nonessential purchases.

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Md. Contractor Gets Prison Term in Theft of Union Funds

CEO involved in stealing more than $1.7 million from Laborers' local, DOJ says

Tom Ichniowski

February 27, 2017

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Two executives of contracting firm and a former union official sentenced.

Drones Taking Flight Despite Uncertain Regs

Laura E. Vlieg

November 2, 2015

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For decades now, the word “drones” has evoked a militaristic image of pilotless aircraft, but the technology of unmanned flight has evolved and adapted to meet civilian needs.