U.S. Army Corps of Engineers News Archives

Delaware officials are suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over its plan to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel without obtaining state permits.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 7:42 pm US/Central HOYT LAKES, Minn. 1 of 1 The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have released a draft environmental impact statement on the proposed PolyMet mine near Hoyt Lakes.

The old company store remains in the coal community of Stearns in southern Kentucky.

DOVER, Del. -- Delaware officials say the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to deepen the Delaware River despite lacking proper permits.Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Secretary Collin O'Mara said Saturday that the Army Corps notified the department Friday night that it intends to go forward with its proposal ...

Baghdad's Sadr City district, home to more than 2 million Iraqis, was built by Saddam Hussein as a massive urban community to house the thousands of rural Iraqis migrating to the capital in search of jobs.

A federal judge has revoked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for the controversial Mirasol project in northern Collier County.

"I get it! I get it!" West Virginia Third District Congressman Nick Rahall repeated that to me near the end of our interview on Talkline.

Well, he said he'd bankrupt the coal industry. Looks like he meant it. I was shocked to read in the Kingsport Times News an article about Congressman Boucher having to go before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to argue for keeping a modified version of the existing mining permit process in place.

How bad has it gotten for coal companies fighting with the Environmental Protection Agency? Even U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, who once advocated outlawing surface mining, is mad at the EPA.

Mike Rattay, project manager for the East Branch Dam safety initiative, provided an update about the ongoing repairs taking place during the recent fall community relations meeting.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says construction on Fort Rileys new hospital is likely to begin next month.

In January 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a permit for a new surface mine in Mingo County, W.Va. Company officials say it took them nearly 10 years to obtain the permit.

The Environmental Protection Agency is serious: It really is taking on Big Coal in a big way.

Gov. Joe Manchin repeated Monday his charge that a federal crackdown on mountaintop mining permits was "beyond cruel," but the governor also presented a more nuanced position on environmental regulation and suggested the state is ready to move away from its dependence on extraction industries.

By TESA CULLI tesa.culli@register-news.com BENTON - Rend Lake will be receiving $5.1 million after Congress approved a total of $94 million for energy and water-related projects in Illinois.

ON Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson assured Reps.

The US Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $51.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to KBE Ventures, a Farmington, CT-based joint venture of KBE Building Corporation and Derita Construction, to build an Armed Forces Reserve Center at Cucia Park in Middletown, CT.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open the first Veterans Curation Project laboratory, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in Augusta, Ga., on Tuesday, October 20.

UNITED Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts loves college football. He's a longtime WVU season ticket holder and rarely misses a home game.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are close to making a decision on six of the 23 West Virginia permits the federal Environmental Protection Agency has identified as needing further scrutiny, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman said.

Lake Lanier may have finally reached full pool, but it's unlikely to rise much higher.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected the team of ACCIONA Solar Power and the Clark Energy Group to develop a large-scale solar energy project at one of its most iconic installations: the Fort Irwin military complex, located in the Mojave Desert, California.

Much of Jean Loomis' life is pretty mundane. She gets up every morning, eats breakfast in the chow hall, exercises, and then audits completed military contracts in one of the world's hottest war zones Afghanistan.

Second District Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito says she wants specifics. "Is this just an effort by the Corps and the Administration to choke off the mining and use of coal?" That was one of the questions Second District Congressman Shelley Moore Capito had for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson Thursday.

A barge and towboat make their way down the Mississippi River just upstream from Alton on Wednesday.

EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, Dept. of Energy Agree to Complete Cleanup of Middlesex, NJ Superfund Site Soil remediation is finished while groundwater remediation remains to be done, at the Middlesex Sampling Plant site in Middlesex, NJ.

Hundreds of coal miners and mining supporters turned out to protest a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers public hearing Oct.

Oct. 14, 2009 Rahall Continues Fight to Protect Coal Jobs Special to Huntingtonnews.net Washington, DC - Furthering his commitment to ensuring the future of coal mining jobs and the vitality of West Virginia's mining communities, U.S. Rep.

SUNNYVALE, California i 1 2 October 6, 2009 i 1 2 Real-Time Innovations , The Real-Time Middleware Experts, announced today that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected RTI Data Distribution Service for an upgrade of the Grand Coulee Dami 1 2s control system.

After record-setting floods hit Eastern North Dakota earlier this spring, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is figuring out a way to protect Williston from a similar scenario.

Share + Oct 10, 2009 11:45 am US/Eastern CHEYENNE, Wyo. 1 of 1 Rural communities that hosted the first nuclear missiles 50 years ago are now having to deal with a much longer-lasting legacy than the Cold War -- groundwater pollution.

Providing electricity to all is on the priority list for the Federal Emergency Management Agency , working with the American Samoa Power Authority, who has started to restore power in some affected areas on the eastern side as of late yesterday.

A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday began painting over the gigantic letters ``MTA'' on the concrete bank of the Los Angeles River.

Recovery efforts are underway in American Samoa, which was struck last week by a major earthquake and tsunami, along with the nearby nations of Samoa and Tonga.

U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to approve the conference report on H.R. 3183 the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Joe Manchin on Tuesday continued his criticism of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , calling its decision to more closely review mining permits in four states "cruel and inhumane." Last month, the EPA referred 79 pending mining permits, including 23 in West Virginia, to its water quality experts and the U.S. Army ...

Heavy cranes, including a Link-Belt 120-ton and a Link-Belt 200-ton , have been performing steel erection on the $290-million new Command Headquarters complex currently under construction at Fort Bragg, N.C. Click to enlarge photo.

Global Strategies Group was recently awarded several new task orders as part of its Reconstruction Security Support Services contract with the US Army Corps of Engineers .

Army Corps of Engineers'A research and developmentA organization eyes industrial and transportation potential of hydrogen separation tech with latest investment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be taking a closer look at 79 surface mine permits in the Appalachian region.

A public comment period has opened on a temporary provision that could allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to lower the amount of water discharged from its Upstate lakes this winter.

The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency is into its fifth day of response and federal support to American Samoa.

Workers have started laying a pipeline that will be used as the conduit for about 900,000 cubic yards of sand to build a new beach south of Pascagoula's Beach Boulevard.

The Obama administration has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct studies on the possibility of removing four hydroelectric dams on the Snake River in Washington state in order to 'protect' 13 species of salmon on the federal endangered species list.

Oct. 2, 2009 Rahall Includes $1.5 Million for Army Corps of Engineer Projects in Cabell County Special to Huntingtonnews.net Washington, DC - The final version of a spending measure containing $1.5 million in earmarks secured by U.S. Rep.

The U.S. Army Geospatial Center , formerly known as the Engineer Research and Development Center's Topographic Engineering Center , became a Major Subordinate Command center under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday.

PASCAGOULA A 7-mile pipeline, which will be used as the conduit for about 900,000 cubic yards of sand to build a new beach south of Pascagoula's Beach Boulevard, was threaded under the U.S. 90 bridge this week.

The replacement of Martin Army Community Hospital at Fort Benning has taken a major step forward with the awarding of a contract to design and build the state-of-the-art facility.

Mechanical problems have shut down the navigation lock at The Dalles Dam. The lock at The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River remains closed this morning because of mechanical problems, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer officials said.