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Inflation Checked in 2016

Increases in lumber prices have been offset by falling steel and cement prices
Tim Grogan
Tim Grogan
March 23, 2016
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Although ENR’s indexes measure the costs of non-residential buildings, the recovery in the housing market is having a major impact on index movement.


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Tough Road Ahead for Obama's High Court Selection

Pam Mcfarland
Pam Hunter McFarland
March 23, 2016
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Merrick B. Garland, President’s Obama’s nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left open by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February, has a history of giving deference to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in clean air and other environmental cases and has sided more often with EPA than industry, according to SCOTUSblog, which analyzes high court cases.
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Innovation Keeps Water Treatment Plants Online

Thomas F. Armistead
March 23, 2016
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A digester system cannot be shut down for more than a few hours without serious consequences.


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New Project Could Cut Cost of Offshore Wind by Half

March 23, 2016
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Construction of 2,000 megawatts of wind power off Massachusetts’ shores could cut the current price in half, according to a new study released by the University of Delaware’s Special Initiative on Offshore Wind.
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Sherwin-Williams Acquires Rival Valspar in $9-billion Deal

Jeff Rubenstone
Jeff Rubenstone
March 23, 2016
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Paint manufacturing giant Sherwin- Williams Co. on March 20 announced that it will acquire rival The Valspar Corp. in an all-cash transaction worth roughly $9 billion.
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Lawsuits Target Flint's Engineers

The engineers appear not to have been hired to do tasks to detect lead poisoning in the drinking water
March 23, 2016
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Flint shows how vulnerable the public is when government officials try to cut costs on basic infrastructure without seeing the big picture.


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North Carolina Restarts Stalled Devere Construction Projects

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Jim Parsons
March 23, 2016
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The North Carolina Dept. of Transportation (NCDOT) gradually is restarting four road projects idled in late January, when Alpena, Mich.-based DeVere Construction Co. withdrew from the jobs in an apparent payment dispute with the agency.


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Worker Death at Wilshire Grand Tower in L.A. Ruled a Suicide by Coroner

March 23, 2016
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The cause of death of an electrician who fell from the 53rd floor of the under- construction Wilshire Grand project in downtown Los Angeles has been ruled a suicide by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
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NASA Offers Risk-Management Tools for Offshore Oil Drilling

March 23, 2016
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will help the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to analyze and reduce risks for offshore oil-and-gas operations under a memorandum of understanding signed on March 17.
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House Passes FAA Stopgap to Avert Agency's Shutdown

Tom Ichniowski
Tom Ichniowski
March 22, 2016
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Extension through July 15, which Obama is expected to sign, gives Congress time to work on longer-term FAA bill.


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