Tue June 27, 2017
Firm Stops Drilling for Gas Pipeline
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A federal agency has told a company building a high-pressure natural gas pipeline it cannot resume drilling beneath creeks in southeast Ohio and northern West Virginia. The Columbus Dispatch reported the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected Texas-based Energy Transfers' request to resume horizontal drilling....
Brenda Ruggiero - Mon June 26, 2017
$63.3M Dune Project Under Way at Jersey Shore
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Philadelphia District is overseeing a $63.3 million project in New Jersey. The contract was awarded to Weeks Marine Inc., and is known as the Absecon Island Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project....
Wed June 21, 2017
Clean Coal Technologies Plans to Build Its First Pristine M Facility in Wyoming
Clean Coal Technologies Inc. (CCTI), an emerging cleaner-energy company utilizing patented and proven technology to convert untreated coal into a cleaner burning and more efficient fuel, has signed a binding agreement with Wyoming New Energy Corp....
Tue June 20, 2017
Rattlesnake Wind Project Begins Construction in Texas
Renewable Energy Systems (RES), a company that deals in the development, engineering, and construction of wind, solar, transmission and energy storage projects in the Americas, and Chicago-based Goldwind Americas, a subsidiary of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co....
Mon June 12, 2017
Riccelli-Northern Announces First NRMCA Green-Star Certified Plant in Central N.Y.
On March 29, 2017, Riccelli-Northern's Rome, N.Y., ready mix plant became only the 5th plant to be Green-Star Certified in upstate New York and the first in central New York. The NRMCA Green-Star Program of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association has been designed as a means to support the efforts of the ready mixed concrete industry towards environmental excellence, through the recognition of the use of environmental management systems (EMS) as a tool for environmental benchmarking and continual improvement, and as a means to recognize those who adhere to essential principals of the environmental and sustainability movement of our industry....
Mon June 12, 2017
Maryland Awards ORECS to Two Offshore Wind Developers
In a decision that will position Maryland as a national leader in offshore wind energy, the Maryland Public Service Commission awarded offshore wind renewable energy credits (ORECs) to two projects to be built off the coast of Maryland....
Thu June 08, 2017
Hawaii DOT Cuts Energy Usage in Half at 11 Airports
The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) has entered the second phase of its energy savings performance contract with Johnson Controls to provide high-efficiency lighting at 11 Hawaii airports and solar photovoltaic systems at Honolulu International Airport....
Thu June 08, 2017
RES Announces Construction of Redbed Plains Wind Farm
Renewable Energy Systems (RES), a leader in the development, engineering, and construction of wind, solar, transmission and energy storage projects in the Americas, announces the start of construction on EDP Renewables North America's (EDPR NA) Redbed Plains Wind Farm in Grady County, Okla., just southwest of Oklahoma City....
Scott McFetridge - Wed June 07, 2017
Climate Change Raises New Risk … Are Inland Bridges Too Low?
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A century-old train trestle stands as one of the trophies of Des Moines' push to spruce up its downtown. Bicyclists and pedestrians pose for pictures beside the brightly painted beams of the Red Bridge and gather on viewing platforms overlooking the Des Moines River....
Rebecca Boone - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue June 06, 2017
Cleanup at Idaho Nuclear Landfill on Hold After Collapse
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Some cleanup efforts at a nuclear waste landfill in eastern Idaho are on hold while workers try to figure out what caused a collapse in a dig area that sent an excavator into a pit. The excavator was digging up transuranic waste — which is waste contaminated with highly radioactive elements....
