British Columbis safety regulator cites extended police criminal probe for keeping secret results of its probe into one of North America's deadliest crane collapses that in July 2021 killed four site workers at a 25-story condo project and an engineer in an adjacent building.
Cost projections have run between $8 billion and $16 billion for the project to renovate the 1,100-room Victorian-era complex by the River Thames in London.
Gov. Gavin Newsom May 19 executive order creates an “infrastructure strike team” to identify and expedite key projects, and his plan for a legislative package would further reduce time to move them from planning to construction.
One tunnel boring machine has made headway drilling a new 5,700-ft-long tube for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, part of a $756-million project to eliminatie a longstanding bottleneck by connecting parallel above-water segments constructed in 1995 to carry southbound traffic.
Hundreds of ash disposal sites at inactive US power plants could be subject to new federal safety regulation under a rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Funding from the 2021 infrastructure law will expedite 12 projects targeting carbon emissions from power generation and other industrial operations, said US Energy Dept. officials.
The program focuses on 11 buildings projects, and is intended to reduce emissions associated with federal construction and promote wider adoption of environmental product declarations for building materials.
The "right-to-control theory" used by federal prosecutors "cannot form the basis for a conviction under federal fraud statutes,” Justice Clarence Thomas said in the unanimous opinion, with the high court also ruling on disputes related to the controversial Mountain Valley gas pipeline and to state mandates affecting interstate commerce.
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