Global building products giant CRH is latest to exit the Israel market, but firm says its sale of a 25% stake in a large local cement firm was not due to boycott pressure.
Aiming for an economic boost as part of China’s anticipated Silk Road corridor to Europe, the republic of Georgia has picked a local-U.S. joint venture, backed by global investors, to develop a $2.5-billion deep-sea port at Anaklia on the Black Sea.
A planned $2-billion flood-control project for the Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., metro area allocates $5 million worth of construction funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its 2016 work plan, said Terry Williams, corps project manager in St. Paul.
The budget proposal that President Obama sent to Congress on Feb. 9 confirmed the administration’s plans to terminate, nearly nine years after construction began, the multibillion-dollar Mixed-Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility project at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to place a hold on implementing a rule to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, the agency’s administrator says.