Contracts have been awarded for emergency interstate repairs and to reconnect Asheville, N.C.'s largest water treatment plant.

The facility would accommodate commercial traffic crossing into the U.S. in Douglas, Ariz., relieving an aging facility nearby.

FHWA formula highway funds viewed as critically important part of surface transportation program.

Original contractor Saudi Binladin Group is set to resume work on the Jeddah Tower and scheduled to complete construction in 42 months.

But justices declined to block business group and red state suits against tougher curbs on mercury pollutants from coal-fired power plants and methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities. 

Communities across the Southeast are frantically working to restore water service, which in some cases is still weeks away.

Projects selected by the U.S. Dept. of Energy would add nearly 1,000 miles of transmission development and 7,100 MW of capacity in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

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State transportation agencies take stock of damage and prepare to award contracts to repair and rebuild highways and bridges hard hit by Hurricane Helene.

State transportation agencies in North Carolina and Tennessee are still assessing damage from the storm, forecasting a months-long effort to repair hard-hit critical arteries such as Interstate-40.