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Grant to help study climate affect on roads
A $750,000 National Science Foundation grant will help University of New Hampshire researchers examine how climate affects road and bridge construction.
Report says climate change harms Great Lakes parks
By John Flesher Associated Press Traverse City, Mich. — Some of the Great Lakes’ treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that likely are to worsen in […]
Obama: ‘Meaningful breakthrough’ reached at talks (4:16 p.m. 12/18/09)
By JENNIFER LOVEN and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Writers COPENHAGEN (AP) — President Barack Obama said the United States and four other countries, including China, reached a “meaningful and unprecedented […]
Poll: Action on climate will lift economy, jobs (10:23 a.m. 12/15/09)
By Dina Cappiello AP Writer Washington — More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It’s […]
Doyle set to deliver speeches at climate talks
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wis. Gov. Jim Doyle has a full slate while in Copenhagen this week for the United Nations climate talks. Doyle’s scheduled to spend five days at […]
The push for 350: Contradictions and carbon levels
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer COPENHAGEN (AP) — As police cracked down on climate protesters, church bells tolled 350 times Sunday to impress on the U.N. global warming conference […]
Senators propose new approach to climate issue (1:14 p.m. 12/11/09)
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators on Friday offered yet another approach to tackling climate change, proposing the government sell pollution allowances to industry […]
EPA chief: U.S. will regulate CO2 with common sense (8:36 a.m. 12/9/09)
By JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press Writers COPENHAGEN (AP) — The United States for the first time outlined a dual path toward cutting greenhouse gases that would involve both President Barack […]
UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record (6:46 a.m. 12/8/09)
By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent COPENHAGEN (AP) — This decade is very likely to be the warmest since record keeping began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among […]
EPA: Greenhouse gases endanger human health (1:57 p.m. 12/7/09)
By DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing […]
UN sees world closing in on greenhouse targets (10:23 a.m. 12/6/09)
By ARTHUR MAX and KARL RITTER Associated Press Writers COPENHAGEN (AP) — The world is entering talks on a new climate pact with unprecedented unity and leaders must seize the […]
Warming’s impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest […]
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- Lawmakers block update for new commercial building standards
- Milwaukee Mayor’s $1.9B budget proposal has infrastructure boost
- As employers face labor shortages, Biden administration rolls out playbook for training workers
- Wisconsin Senate committee votes against confirmation for four DNR policy board appointees
- October proclaimed Architecture Awareness Month in Wisconsin
- Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of October 2, 2023
- Corn mill owners plead to federal charges in fatal explosion, will pay $11.25 million
- BUILDING BLOCKS: Second phase of Lower Yahara River Trail construction
- Sky-high mortgage rates leave homes unaffordable for more buyers, sending new home sales tumbling
- Forecast: Economic challenges ahead as rates rise and labor shortages remain
- CBRE opens office on 18th floor of Milwaukee BMO Tower
- Former inmate able to rebuild life through work in construction trades
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)
