The new chief safety officer for Washington, D.C.’s beleaguered Metrorail system has promised an aggressive revamp of the agency’s safety culture, correcting deficiencies that have resulted in deaths and injuries to passengers and workers and significantly compromised the 40-year-old network’s infrastructure.

Transportation projects accounted for 63% of last year's $111.6-billion total, followed by energy, with 34%.

Legislation directs DOT to write safety standards for natural-gas storage facilities and gives it authority to issue broad emergency orders.

The working group report is a response to last February's fatal crawler crane accident.

But the White House has threatened a veto and the Senate is unlikely to approve similar legislation.

URS exec takes CEO role at American Bridge; former Mace executive now is a VP at McKinsey.

As a new federal rule takes effect in August to require employers to post injury and illness records electronically, lawmakers and construction-sector advocates on opposite sides squared off at a May 25 congressional hearing on the mandate’s approach to improved workplace safety.

As pressure mounts on coal-and natural-gas-fired power plants—as well as cement kilns—to reduce CO2 emissions, researchers are looking to not only capture and store those emissions but also to convert CO2 into marketable products.

Hypersaline cooling-water seepage from Florida Power & Light Co.’s 3550-MW Turkey Point Power Station in Florida City has polluted the shallow Biscayne Aquifer and now is being drawn back to the plant’s property through retraction wells in an operation expected to take 10 years.