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I was at a hearing before the Environment and Public Works Committee this week. It was supposed to be a routine budget hearing, but as is often the case with the new GOP majority, lawmakers turned a discussion of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s fiscal 2016 budget into a debate on climate change.
Surety Liberty Mutual reached a settlement in December with the auditor for Ballenger Construction Co., the Texas contractor whose late 2012 bankruptcy left dozens of unfinished projects.
House chairman drafting bill but awaits tax committees' revenue plan. DOT chief warns of slowdown in highway-aid disbursements to states if a new bill isn't in place by May 31.
A proposal released this spring to clarify which waters in the United States fall under the protections of the Clean Water Act is a hot-button issue among industry firms, lawmakers and environmental advocates, and on Feb. 4, U.S. lawmakers took the unusual step of holding a bicameral joint committee hearing to take a closer
I've had a bee in my bonnet about office cubicles for years—even before I lost my private office to a cubicle way back in 1998. Finally, a report is out that substantiates my concerns about the negative impacts of a lack of privacy for so-called "knowledge work."
Environment and Public Works panel's first hearing this year focused on Topic A: long-term legislation to bolster the Highway Trust Fund and extend the highway program.
Newsflash: the more powerful party in a claims negotiation tends to be a risk-taker and come out better in the give-and-take mainly by trying to take more than he or she gives.
Are you one of ENR’s Newsmakers from across the years? We want you for a photo op at this year’s Award of Excellence gala. To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the program, we plan to open the evening with a group photo of all the returning Newsmakers from years’ past. A week after the event, we will publish the photo in the magazine and online, with a story about the outstanding accomplishments of our Newsmakers over the years.
President Obama in his State of the Union address and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who gave the GOP response, voiced support for infrastructure, but with differences.
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