Despite signs of global progress on climate change mitigation, the COP29 conference this year is underway in Azerbaijan as nations face still high carbon reduction hurdles and new political and financial strains.

Biden administration announced Oct. 8 $2.6 billion more for that effort, distributed through drinking water state revolving funds and added to $15 billion funded through the federal infrastructure law.

Members will receive $800 a week in maternity benefits for a minimum of 12 weeks, union General President Brent Booker told the Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in New Orleans.

Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.

NYC's MTA, as well as Amtrak, NJ Transit and Gateway Development Commission are pushing out new spending for regional rail upgrades and expansion.     

Shimmick Construction Co. is general contractor under a $373.8-million design-bid-build contract for San Diego's North City Pure Water Facility and Pump Station—a 30-million-gallon-per-day plant that is part of the Pure Water San Diego Program.

The 21 projects total $325 million and include weatherization, workforce development, wastewater treatment and energy efficiency retrofits among other endeavors. 

HDR recently introduced three redevelopment concepts for Harbor Island off Grand Haven, Mich., which will offer recreational activities on the former industrial and waste disposal site. 

The certificate-granting academy’s name references the Omaha Tribe, known as “the ones who go against the current,” many of whose members live on the reservation where the school is located.

Voting reps from nearly 200 nations at Dubai event ending Dec. 13 agreed to “transition away” from fossil fuels—boosting renewables, nuclear energy and climate investment—but did not mandate specific actions to cut back traditional energy use.