Ohio Attorney General sues United States Gypsum Co. for nearly $17 million to recover costs incurred to stabilize a state roadway threatened by sinkholes that had developed above the company’s former underground gypsum mines.
The U.S. Dept. of Defense has instructed its agencies to remove language in contracts requiring labor agreements for projects over $35 million, changing a Biden-era rule.
Failing to follow state and federal drug testing protocols has resulted in an $8.5 million settlement in the wrongful death of construction worker fatally struck by a dump truck in St. Paul, Minn.
DC federal judge on Feb. 3 extended her block of the Trump funding freeze on grants and loans, but industry groups still are unclear on where their project money is.
Spokeswoman announced reversal of sweeping Office of Management and Budget funding pause mandate to federal agencies, which generated confusion and concern and brought lawsuits and court-imposed restraining order.
Officials are working to understand how the structural steel practice facility collapsed overnight in Gulf Shores, Ala., part of the city's $137-million construction of a new high school.