Washington Observer.

This article focuses on various news related to construction industry as of December 22, 2003. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences review says the organization Corps of Engineers should use nonstructural waterway congestion fixes and adaptive management for natural resources as it works on a revised study of upper Mississippi River improvements. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by Vice President Richard Cheney, who hopes to preserve confidentiality of certain records from meetings of his 2001 energy policy task force. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two ways for coal-fired power plants to curb mercury emissions.