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A wide-ranging plan to restore damaged Gulf Coast wetlands and other environmentally sensitive areas has received a boost with oil giant BP’s agreement to pay federal, state and local governments $20.8 billion to resolve civil claims stemming from its massive 2010 Gulf oil spill.

When Fluor Intercontinental, a unit of the big engineering and construction services company, won a $74.4-million contract in early 2005 to build a new U.S. embassy compound in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, it ran into trouble with soil conditions that differed from what the firm believed would be present.

Nashville Ready Mix Inc., charged with vehicular homicide and reckless homicide after one of its trucks was involved in a fatal crash in 2013, has pled no contest to the reckless homicide charge and paid a $200,000 fine.

A Parsons Corp. unit has agreed to pay the federal government $3.8 million to settle charges that it knowingly mischarged the Dept. of Energy for employees’ relocation costs for work on a project at DOE’s Savannah River site in South Carolina, the Dept. of Justice says.

Steve Hill for ENR Fluor's Bruno said any risk can be tolerated if it is identified, mitigated and managed. Related Links: Black & Veatch's Triplett: Risk Control Shouldn't Hinder Growth Fluor Corp.’s international portfolio and financial might would seem to dictate a conservative approach to design and construction. Few would be surprised, for example, if the company abided by the familiar concept that every project risk ought to be commensurate with potential reward.As it happens, that isn’t how Fluor practices risk management, said Paul Bruno, the company’s managing general counsel. And he wants to dispel the old idea that risk

Related Links: Link to Supreme Court June 29 ruling EPA's page on MATS rule In a major setback for the Obama administration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did not consider the costs firms would face to comply with a 2013 federal rule aimed at reducing emissions of mercury and other air pollutants.The high court is sending the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule (MATS) back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and to EPA to evaluate compliance costs.Although EPA critics such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch

The U.S. Supreme Court, for the second time in three years, has affirmed the legality of key provisions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,  a measure that is viewed as one of President Obama's central legislative achievements.