Dominion Virginia Power has progressed on its plan to build what will be the first wind research turbines in U.S. waters by breaking the project’s EPC contract into four smaller packages, utility officials said on April 7.
The largest-ever infrastructure investment in Israel’s history—possibly $10 billion—has been halted and could face delay of at least a year following a March 27 domestic court ruling that rejected the framework for the U.S.- Israeli developers of the Leviathan offshore gas field.
Mittie Cannon, director of workforce development for Alabama-based contractor Robins & Morton, has a solution to attract more young women to construction as a career—draw in their mothers, too.
A final rule requiring employers to monitor and substantially reduce worker exposures to breathable crystalline silica—otherwise known as silica dust—will save more than 600 lives annually and protect the health of thousands of others, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and a number of labor unions that support the rule.
More work on the $26-billion Hinkley Point C reactor hinges on a French government decision in May; project developers say it is "well-prepared" to proceed.
For years, Chesapeake Bay has been the subject of dire reports: dwindling fish, crab and oyster populations, loss of native underwater grasses, eroding shorelines, murky water and algae blooms caused by excessive levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.