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Officials plan to build a geothermal heat pump system and solar power generation on the campus, in addition to retrofitting buildings.

A large renewable energy project cancellation in New York and the threat of Trump administration growth curbs are raising market jitters, but more federal project approvals are pushing forward. 

Green building groups note barriers to more sustainability upgrades that have limited widespread adoption by owners of most global building stock.

Artificial reefs will attenuate everyday wave energy that slowly erodes a critical coastal highway.

Speakers at the recent ENR LA Infrastructure Forum and CoMotion LA events shared major plans for added transportation capacity and safer mobility.

Officials selected 14 projects for $428 million in grants.

Form Energy will expand its just completed scaled-up iron-air system factory in West Virginia, also announcing $1.2 billion in firm investments and plans to deploy batteries at commercial scale, with Mortenson as contractor for the first project in Minnesota. 

Even before projects reach the shovel-ready phase, a “business as usual” mindset can stunt sustainability goals, says John Delaney, sustainability director at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners.

Five states are challenging the Bureau of Land Management rule, saying it would hamper development of fossil fuel resources.