Danish giant Orsted wins NJ's record 1,100-MW power project; NY's 800-MW award is imminent, as U.S. energy sector builds to become projected $70B industry.
With recent project execution issues and results surprises among publicly traded engineering and construction firms, some question traditional industry business models.
Unless nations quickly muster the political and social will to engineer an emissions-free industrial system, the impacts of a warming planet are likely to be so great as to cause human civilization to collapse by 2050.
Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $1.05 million to settle federal violations for polluting the Yellowstone River in Montana in 2011, when a broken pipeline dumped 63,000 gallons of crude oil 150 miles downstream from Yellowstone National Park.