Recreational activities at the Liberty, Loch Raven, and Prettyboy reservoirs will be suspended, citizen drop-off center service will be reduced and additional restrictions by Baltimore public works will be in place starting Monday. Beginning Monday, staff who can work from home will remain home, and services such as the water billing call center and customer walk-in center at the Abel Wolman ... Read More

Mar. 20--Pennsylvania has shut down highway projects because of the coronavirus emergency, but state regulators on Thursday rebuffed calls to halt construction of the contentious Mariner East pipeline project. The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission declined to interrupt construction of the pipeline expansion project, which transports natural gas liquids such as propane from the Marcellus ... Read More

HARRISBURG - Rack up another victim of the coronavirus: Construction on the Mariner East 2 pipeline was temporarily halted Friday. Gov. Tom Wolf's Thursday night edict banning all "non-life-sustaining" business includes pipeline construction, according to Gregory A. Kauffman, director of Legislative Affairs at the state Department of Environmental Protection. The governor's ruling does not ... Read More

Construction of the ethane cracker plant in Beaver County had been going full bore since November 2017 – until now. Royal Dutch Shell suspended work on the petrochemical project Wednesday afternoon, in an effort to contain the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus – around the plant and in the community. At a time of social distancing, when people are to gather in groups no larger than ... Read More

Mar. 18--POTTER TWP. -- Some Shell Chemicals workers and residents are demanding the company temporarily cease cracker plant construction as Beaver County reels from its first confirmed COVID-19 case. Employees this week reported a variety of health hazards at the Potter Township site, including crowded buses, limited hand sanitizer in bathrooms and non-adherence to social distancing ... Read More

Mar. 10--Starting on Sunday, employers in the city of Pittsburgh will be required to provide workers with paid time off when they are sick or taking care of family members due to illness or injury. This isn't a new ordinance passed in response to the novel coronavirus. It was enacted all the way back in 2015, but was held up by legal challenges until the state Supreme Court ruled in ... Read More

Mar. 2--Amazon's plan to build its biggest warehouse ever on Boxwood Road outside Wilmington, on the site of a General Motors plant that closed in 2009, makes for a sobering case study of the changes that have overtaken the U.S. industrial economy. General Motors, at its peak in 1979, employed more than 600,000. Amazon, in its Dec. 31 annual report, says it employs just under 800,000. But the ... Read More

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When plans for the 605-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline were first unveiled in 2014, supporters of the natural gas project brimmed with enthusiasm and promises. The pipeline would bring natural gas from West Virginia to growing markets in Virginia and North Carolina, and with it, would come economic development, thousands of jobs and reduced energy costs for consumers, ... Read More

Feb. 20--UNIVERSITY PARK -- Penn State's board of trustees is set to approve $142 million in capital projects Friday, following Thursday's finance, business and capital planning committee meeting. The biggest ticket item, at $82.5 million, is Phase 2B of the East Halls renovations project, which encompasses the renovations of Bigler, Curtin and Packer halls and their site and utility work, ... Read More

The family of a construction worker killed on a Baltimore excavation site in 2018 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and its subcontractor for alleged negligence. Kyle Hancock of Glen Burnie was working on a sewer line near the Clifton Park pool on June 5, 2018, when a 15-foot trench caved in, burying him alive. Rescue workers struggled to find the 20-year-old worker, ... Read More