Two days after one of California’s most devastating wildfires began raging through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties on Dec. 4, Procore sent its approximately 700 Carpinteria-based employees home from the office campus.
Houston engineer Drew Molly kept the city's drinking water system operating by the skin of his teeth during Harvey. A new innovation hub looks to prevent such near misses.
Steel interests have misgivings about the fairness of a California law, enacted last month, intended to minimize carbon footprints of certain construction materials used in state-funded building projects by requiring all products to have a global warming potential less than the industry average.
Although Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has vowed to speed cleanup at the nation’s more than 1,300 Superfund sites, documents indicate the agency may slow down an estimated $1-billion cleanup at the Portland, Ore., harbor.