More work on the $26-billion Hinkley Point C reactor hinges on a French government decision in May; project developers say it is "well-prepared" to proceed.
Infrastructure investment is 20% to 30% higher than the previous government's budget, but some funding and other elements don't live up to 2015 campaign promises
Michigan unveiled a plan to push pipe replacement and toughen state drinking-water rules, but Congress adjourned without passing a federal-aid package and participants in the city’s unfolding saga traded blame at heated Washington hearings.
By a roughly two-to-one margin, North Carolina voters on March 15 approved a $2-billion bond package that will fund improvements to public buildings and civil infrastructure systems across the state.
Merrick B. Garland, President’s Obama’s nominee to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left open by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February, has a history of giving deference to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in clean air and other environmental cases and has sided more often with EPA than industry, according to SCOTUSblog, which analyzes high court cases.