The House Appropriations Committee approved the spending bill July 19 by a party-line 33-27 vote. 

Focus now shifts to Senate, where committee has yet to act on FAA bill.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has refined its plan to protect communities west of New Orleans from storm damage.

A joint venture of MWH Constructors and Kiewit Corp will build a $1.25B water filtration facility with a J.W. Fowler- MWH team tapped for a related $550M pipeline project.

Skanska was tapped to complete Phase III of the eastern county project, aimed at relieving one of the worst truck bottlenecks in California.

Firm will construct a 3,000-inmate prison in the state, which seeks to modernize its correctional facilities with an influx of capital investment.

Fixed price award for Brownsville, Texas gas export plant first phase follows developer NextDecade's final investment decision and what it says is a record $18.4B financing for three-train facility to produce 17.6M tons annually. 

Advocates describe fund as a "climate bank."

Work is set to resume on 175-MW Yellowstone County project, with Burns & McDonnell as EPC contractor, after new court ruling that followed revised state law banning regulators from weighing greenhouse gas emissions in permit reviews of new energy projects. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as the U.K. Met Office, have introduced climate assessment mapping websites backed by government data sources.