EPA's rejects Alabama's Dept. of  Environmental Management plan to oversee permitting of coal ash disposal plans. 

New York's MTA receives the largest grant, at $157 million, for upgrades to the New York City subway system.

Contractors have been chosen for two jail replacement projects located in Queens and the Bronx.

Measure authorizes $2.3B for eight new or modified Corps projects.

Steel, concrete interests claim proposed legislation disrupts the competitive process and could strain industry supply chain.

Officials were assessing the condition of the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge after a barge collided with it.

The inadequacy of existing safeguards to protect bridges and other infrastructure from ever-larger container ships was considered in a House hearing May 15, a day after the NTSB released its preliminary report on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

As federal appropriations season begins in earnest, the latest EPA Clean Watershed Survey shows an enormous need for funding—more than $630 billion. 

The vote now sends the measure to President Biden for his signature.

Long-anticipated FERC rules require power providers to conduct 20-year-ahead plans for long-term transmission needs and give agency backstop siting authority for projects that cross grid boundaries.