Projects and contracts get more local pushback and new scrutiny as $15-billion Trump construction program speeds to end of his presidency

If GOP holds Senate, speculation centers on Capito of W. Va. as new chair; if Democrats take over, Delaware's Carper will be chair.

NWP-12 revision, set to cut pipeline legal battles, now faces further scrutiny by a new administration.

The U.S. Corps of Engineers Galveston District and Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 have brought on a joint venture of Freese and Nichols, COWI and CDM Smith (FCC-JV) to part of an $863 million effort to improve hurricane flood protection—levees and floodwalls—for a 65-square-mile area that includes Port Arthur, Texas, and adjacent communities.

In the latest consolidation move in the tightening construction software market, wetlands documentation app company Ecobot announced it has acquired software maker WetForm, one of its main competitors. 

Plan calls for deepening the river from Baton Rouge to the Gulf to 50 ft., from 45 ft. now.