As the California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) struggles to contain one of the deadliest fires to hit the West Coast in 100 years, investigators are moving to preserve evidence in the search for the cause of the blazes in the wine-making counties of Sonoma and Napa.
JDL Development has filed a zoning application with the city of Chicago for a 76-story tower, a 45-story tower and a nine-story shopping center, all sited on the former Holy Name Cathedral parking lot in the Streeterville neighborhood.
Aimed at improving safety along Chicago's popular Lakefront Trail bordering Lake Michigan, a new flyover structure will miss its scheduled 2018 completion date by at least a year, likely boosting the project's original $60-million cost.
A federal judge has endorsed a consent decree to rehabilitate Baltimore's
century-old sewer system, clearing the way for a $1.6-billion strategy to stop
millions of gallons of wastewater from leaking into the city's Inner Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay within the next 13 years.
This year, seven major new-
construction fires at four- to six-story wood-framed residential sites caused property loss exceeding $400
million, says the National Fire Protection Association.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, meant to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.
The demise of TransCanada Corp.’s $12.5-billion Energy East pipeline has put another dent in Canada’s ambitious infrastructure plans, but the void may get filled with other large, albeit controversial, energy projects.
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