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Nov. 30—TotalEnergies plans to build its first biomethane plant in the Texas Panhandle to produce renewable transportation fuel from cow manure. The French oil major on Tuesday said it has partnered with California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to construct a biomethane plant on the Del Rio Dairy Farm in Friona, Texas, where it plans to produce more than 40 gigawatt hours of biomethane every ...
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“Infrastructure week” became a punchline in American politics because elected leaders spent years talking about repairing roads, bridges, dams, rail lines, airports, water supplies and more — yet never could manage to pony up the money. All that changed this month after Congress approved $548 billion in new spending on infrastructure. President Joe Biden said this would be the biggest such ...
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Nov. 24—For decades, San Antonio's federal courthouse has stood along East Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard in what used to be a theater that opened for HemisFair in 1968. But that building will be vacant before Christmas. Judges, court staff, federal marshals and several federal agencies will move into a new courthouse in mid-December. The 235,000-square-foot building sits on 6.3 acres at the ...
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HOUSTON (AP) — A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could become an important test of the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing what it has said is a history of racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the U.S. The project’s critics, including community groups and some residents, say it won’t improve the area’s traffic woes and would subject ...
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Nov. 23—Medical supply giant Medline looks to be setting up shop in Tangipahoa Parish for good after a legal battle over the company's new Hammond distribution center fizzled out. A lawsuit filed in state court by eight residents angry with Medline's plan to build a 650,000-square-foot distribution plant on property near the Hammond airport alleged that the Hammond City Council acted ...
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Samsung is making another multi-billion-dollar bet on Central Texas, as the technology giant confirmed Tuesday that it has picked a site in Williamson County, near Taylor, to build a $17 billion chip-making fabrication facility. Samsung made the announcement Tuesday — at a news conference alongside Gov. Greg Abbott — nearly a year after the South Korea-based company was first reported to be ...
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A Grand Prairie mixed-use project is growing with construction of two new hotels, a conference center and eateries. The 170-acre EpicCentral development is located off State Highway 161 at Arkansas Lane. Dallas’ Merriman Anderson Architects designed the new phase of EpicCentral with two new hotels, the conference and meeting facility and six restaurants. Concord Hospitality of Raleigh North ...
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Louisiana, one of the states that has seen the biggest decline in construction jobs since before the COVID-19 pandemic, could be back on the upswing. A recent report by the Associated General Contractors of America says Louisiana added the largest number and percentage of construction jobs from September to October, at 8,200 jobs, or 7.1%. It brings the total number of jobs to 123,700. That is ...
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it has overturned the approval of a massive flood-control project in the south Mississippi Delta that officials said was erroneously greenlit in the final days of the Trump administration. In a letter to the Army for Civil Works, EPA officials said the past administration's November 2020 decision to approve the Yazoo ...
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Nov. 17—One of the city's busiest expressways will soon have a safe crossing for those using the trails system with construction starting on a 121-foot-long bridge over the six-lane Northwest Expressway. The $5.3 million bridge, east of Wilshire Boulevard, will link the Lake Hefner and Lake Overholser Trails and is funded by bonds passed by voters in 2007 and the Better Streets Safer City ...
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