The U.S. Dept. of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Dept. of the Environment have proposed lengthening the current deadline for Baltimore to eliminate wet-weather overflows from its sewer system.
Two Interior Dept. bureaus have concluded that oil and gas well-stimulation techniques, including hydraulic fracturing, off the coast of California do not pose a significant environmental risk.
The Saudi government has awarded Bechtel a five-year contract extension for project management services at the giant Jubail and Ras Al Khair industrial cities, the company announced on June 6.
Design-build contracts valued at $4.5 billion for the world's longest immersed tube tunnel, between Denmark and Germany, were signed in Copenhagen on May 30. Construction on the 18-kilometer Femernbelt tunnel is set to start in January 2018 and last eight and a half years.