State Rep. Gretchen Driskell (D-Saline) voted Wednesday in favor of Senate Bill 233, a bill that would fund more than 70 different projects around the state. The bill also funds 49 emergency dredging projects. The bill passed 107-3. “This money will go toward parks and other natural sites across Michigan, improving many of our communities,” [...]
Last week, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling and rendered judgment against Zachry Construction Corporation in a suit the company filed in 2006 against the Port of Houston Authority. A trial court previously awarded Zachry $19,662,697 for breach of contract arising from the Bayport Terminal Complex Phase 1A Wharf and Dredging [...]
According to greenbaypressgazette.com, NCR Corp. and Appleton Papers Inc. will not have to pay for the cleanup of PCBs from Little Lake Butte des Morts and southern portions of the lower Fox River, a federal judge ruled this week. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach of Green Bay issued the ruling based on testimony he heard [...]
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In a highly-anticipated decision from the En Banc panel of 11 judges of the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the Court last week held that the U.S. Forest Service violated the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) when the agency approved a slew of mining operations in salmon habitat in and along [...]
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Haifa District Court yesterday ruled in favor of the Ministry of Environment’s appeal of a Haifa’s Magistrate Court decision, and convicted… By Chen Ma’anit (globes) Source: globes, October 25, 2011
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Bottom dredging and the use of a controversial chemical to deal with the unruly plant situation at two lakes located in Yaphank were … By Jennifer Gustavson (northshoresun) Source: northshoresun, December 7, 2010;
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The Cohoes Common Council in a 5-1 vote, passed a resolution of support for the navigational dredging of the Champlain Canal… By Randy S. Koniowka (blog.timesunion) Source: blog.timesunion, July 29, 2010;
