The Community Change Grants program established through the Inflation Reduction Act will support projects that launch
clean energy or improve climate resilience.
New regulations published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dramatically reduce federal protections of previously regulated streams and wetlands.
The agency that operates the plant is preparing to undertake $8 million in repairs, in addition to previously planned projects estimated to cost hundreds of millions more.
Construction groups and environmental advocates both criticize the final "waters of the United States" rule that will open to development thousands of wetland acres formerly protected.
Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.