Duke Energy is set to spend $3.4 billion to clean up 32 coal ash storage ponds located across North Carolina to comply with the state’s recently enacted regulations aimed at preventing a repeat of the February 2014 spill that contaminated portions of the Dan River.
Durham, N.C., is the latest university city to pursue an R&D-centric downtown development strategy, with the debut of the first component of a proposed 15-acre “ Innovation District.”
The contractor at the center of a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the illegal use of a minority-owned enterprise to obtain $87.5 million in government-funded road construction contracts is still being paid by one of the states it defrauded, even as the six individual defendants in the case have entered guilty pleas.
Hoping to avoid another controversial environmental clean-up, the North Carolina legislature has enacted new rules for managing power plant coal ash residue stored in open-air pits and lagoons across the state.
Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission has decided not to pursue a P3 proposal to construct a new tunnel to parallel one of two existing subsurface structures along the 23-mile toll crossing between Virginia Beach and the Delmarva Peninsula.
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Maybe not the public transit riders, but the...
Thanks for sharing, Jim.
The Silver Line (and the whole WMATA system, for that matter) is not light rail. I'd call it heavy rail.
The pipes that are failing were manufactured under a standard that was increasingly lax from around 1950 until 1984. For example later revisions to the specifications effectively remove...