Although a World Bank inspection panel has criticized on environmental and other grounds a mammoth coal-fired powerplant under construction in South Africa, the project will proceed and the bank
Reliance Industries Ltd., India's largest private sector company with annual revenues in excess of $66 billion, has begun construction of a $12-billion coke gasification plant.
Builders of mass transit systems seem cautiously optimistic about the future, buoyed by steady ridership figures and the recent rally to overcome threats to dedicated funding.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with a new Integrated Planning and Permitting Policy, or IP3, that is being discussed as an improvement to the agency's legal enforcement programs for stormwater management and combined sewer overflows.
Officially ending months of inter-agency negotiations over funding for the $1.7-billion Wekiva Parkway toll-road project near Orlando, Florida Transportation Secretary Ananth Prasad in late May signed a memorandum of agreement with the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, or OOCEA, that pushes the project one step closer to construction.
After months of silence while it negotiated project issues with airlines and residents, the city of Philadelphia announced on June 4 that a team led by CH2M Hill Cos. will be program manager for a major expansion of Philadelphia International Airport.
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