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DOE is on track to obligate all of its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contract and grant funding by the statute's Sept. 30 deadline.

I just returned from the Dallas area, where this week Ford invited ENR to drive the new 2011 Ford F-150 at the Texas Motor Speedway. But you don't have to wait for my reports to see how this new truck performs...

Obama administration officials are starting to flesh out details of the President's infrastructure-bank  proposal and the rest of the transportation spending plan he outlined.

Like the boy who cried wolf too many times, California Air Resources Board has the challenge of proving that it can create an air-quality regulation based on sound science.

FAA stretches its $1.1 billion in ARRA airport improvement funds to finance five more grants, totaling $9.1 million.

Here is Miyamoto International's  first-hand account of the situation in Chirstchurch, New Zealand, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on Sept. 4.

Steel for the 105-story One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is erected to the 36th floor. The 54  arches of the 800,000-sq-ft Transportation Hub, informally known as the PATH station, have been installed.  Steel is erected to the fourth floor of the eventual 975-ft-tall Tower 4. And the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum is on course to open on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that rocked New York City and the world nine years ago. But the real progress is, after lots of delays and contentious disagreements, an agreed-upon plan to go forward to complete the WTC redevelopment by 2013.

Should coal ash be designated a "special" hazardous waste?

The Congressional Budget Office has revised its estimate of the total cost of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to $814 billion.  That's up from CBO's original $787-billion figure, but down from its January 2010 estimate of $862 billion.

The Dept. of Veterans Affairs committed all of its $1.8 billion in economic-stimulus funds by July 31, the department has reported.  Much of the money has gone for upgrades to its network of health-care facilities around the country.