Corinne Grinapol

Despite signs of global progress on climate change mitigation, the COP 29 conference this year is underway in Azerbaijan as nations face still high carbon reduction hurdles and new political and financial strains.

Biden administration announced Oct. 8 $2.6 billion more for that effort, distributed through drinking water state revolving funds and added to $15 billion funded through the federal infrastructure law.

Members will receive $800 a week in maternity benefits for a minimum of 12 weeks, union General President Brent Booker told the Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in New Orleans.

Shimmick Construction Co. is general contractor under a $373.8-million design-bid-build contract for San Diego's North City Pure Water Facility and Pump Station—a 30-million-gallon-per-day plant that is part of the Pure Water San Diego Program.

<p>The 21 projects total $325 million and include weatherization, workforce development, wastewater treatment and energy efficiency retrofits among other endeavors. </p><br>

HDR recently introduced three redevelopment concepts for Harbor Island off Grand Haven, Mich., which will offer recreational activities on the former industrial and waste disposal site. 

<p>The certificate-granting academy’s name references the Omaha Tribe, known as “the ones who go against the current,” many of whose members live on the reservation where the school is located.</p>

<p>A consortium led by France-based Suez Group, with Razel-Bec and VINCI subsidiary Triverio Construction has been awarded a civil engineering contract for the Haliotis 2 wastewater treatment facility in Nice, by Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur and Eau d’Azur.</p>

<p>The Loss and Damage fund for vulnerable nations now is operationalized, with initial funding commitments of more than $420 million. </p>

<p>In densely populated cities surrounded on all sides by water—the borough of Manhattan in New York City as a prime example—the risks from sea level rise and climate change are not just hypotheticals; they are existential threats.</p>