With financing agreed between Israel and one of its largest corporations, preliminary planning has begun on an estimated $600-million project to build what could be one of the world's longest conveyors.
Located 15 miles to the south of India's capital, New Delhi, the city of Gurgaon, barely a town two decades ago, is now the symbol of India's new growth and power.
Environmental groups that are monitoring the migration of Asian carp to the Great Lakes region are hopeful that a recent plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will accelerate the timetable for keeping the aggressive species out of the lakes.
Philadelphia and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed an agreement in April that paves the way for $2 billion in green infrastructure investment over the next 25 years for controlling combined-sewer overflows, or CSOs, and managing stormwater more sustainably.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to shorten the timetable for identifying a potential permanent solution to the seemingly unstoppable migration of Asian Carp closer and closer to the Great Lakes.
Three design teams have won competitions to reshape sections of one of the most prominent urban public spaces in the country: the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
In a report released on April 17, a group of former BP oil-spill commissioners gave Congress low marks for failing to enact substantive reform to make offshore drilling safer.