Articles by Corinne Grinapol

DC federal judge on Feb. 3  extended her block of the Trump funding freeze on grants and loans, but industry groups still are unclear on where their project money is.

Judge issues temporary restraining order saying Trump's "earlier alleged rescission of federal funding halt ... was in name-only" and done "simply to defeat the jurisdiction of the courts."  

With desalination in Spain an important strategy amid ongoing water shortages partially linked to climate change, a plant in Torrevieja—a coastal Mediterranean city in the country's southeast—plans to boost its output of desalinated water by 50%.

Given that the aim of this ecotourism project connecting two lakes was to create a network of roads, 31.4 km in total, to allow visitors access to a remote, mountainous area, accessibility was a challenge.

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.