U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district hired PowerSecure Inc. in 2017 via a sole source time-and-materials contract for power grid repair and restoration in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, but the government says the firm improperly withheld pricing data.

Justice Department sets up new office of environmental justice enforcement.

Summit Midstream Partners agrees to federal and North Dakota criminal and civil fines for 29-million-gallon spill of hydraulic fracking wastewater near Williston, N.D. that US said is record for an inland rupture.

The contractor agreed to settle with the Justice Dept. by paying a $1 million settlement over claims it misrepresented its use of a disadvantaged business as a subcontractor on a terminal building project at Peoria International Airport project.