James Cahill will serve 51 months in a New York medium-security federal prison for accepting more than $140,000 in cash plus other benefits to help a non-union contractor win jobs.
Cost projections have run between $8 billion and $16 billion for the project to renovate the 1,100-room Victorian-era complex by the River Thames in London.
Citing the 2022 Pittsburgh span failure, the National Transportation Safety Board says bridges made of uncoated weathering steel plate could face accelerated deterioration and potential collapse without immediate action.
Hundreds of ash disposal sites at inactive US power plants could be subject to new federal safety regulation under a rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Contractor Infrastructure Energy and Alternatives faces $100M jury award liability in landowners' suit claiming sediment runoff from 100-MW project impacted 21-acre lake on their adjacent property.
The program focuses on 11 buildings projects, and is intended to reduce emissions associated with federal construction and promote wider adoption of environmental product declarations for building materials.
The "right-to-control theory" used by federal prosecutors "cannot form the basis for a conviction under federal fraud statutes,” Justice Clarence Thomas said in the unanimous opinion, with the high court also ruling on disputes related to the controversial Mountain Valley gas pipeline and to state mandates affecting interstate commerce.
The effort to build the 87.8-MW Kakono power plant secured $300 million in funding, paving the way for its engineering, procurement and construction phase to begin.
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