Armacell breaks ground on new facility in Bahrain

The new plant will start production in 2018, and will manufacture high-density materials and elastomeric insulation for heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems
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WIFIA Program Gets 43 Requests, Seeking $6B in Loans

Local water agencies got good news when Congress added $10 million to the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan program in the recently enacted omnibus spending bill.
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Illinois Board OKs $4B Interstate Expansion

The Illinois Tollway board this month approved a $4-billion, 22-mile expansion and rehabilitation of a stretch of Interstate 294 called the Central Tri-State Tollway—more than double the original scope of $1.8 billion.

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South Carolina Passes First Gas Tax

Overriding a gubernatorial veto, the South Carolina Legislature has enacted the state’s first gas-tax increase in 30 years.

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Maryland Seeks Ruling on Lawsuit Blocking Light-Rail Project

Maryland has petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals to force a ruling in a long-running environmental lawsuit that has stalled the start of construction on the Purple Line light-rail project for nearly nine months.

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Ohio Pipeline's Drilling Fluid Spill Befouls Wetlands

Work is underway to clean up the “inadvertent return” of an estimated 2 million gallons of bentonite-based drilling fluid into high-quality wetland that occurred during horizontal directional drilling under the Tuscarawas River in Stark County, Ohio, for Energy Transfer Partners L.P.’s Rover Pipeline. 

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Maine Offshore Wind Platform Survives NIMBY Challenge

Maine lawmakers on May 10 unanimously rejected a bill that would have killed a University of Maine 12-MW floating offshore wind test project by moving it from a planned site three miles off Monhegan Island to at least seven miles offshore.
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