Offshore wind’s dual tendency to highlight critical needs and shatter expectations has shown itself more than once. Like our other infrastructure, it needs large-scale, long-term investments in which both public and private sectors play a role.

IIJA-funded programs that use advanced appropriations and are protected from cutbacks, but other programs may be affected.

At the start of its 2023-2024 session on Oct. 2, the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet set a date to hear arguments in a major case that could reevaluate the authority federal agencies have to interpret ambiguous language in U.S. law in rulemaking.

The state announced it would purchase uncontracted energy to sell to utilities to propel the market, as key developer Equinor launches the first undersea robotic analysis and design of its deepwater project site off Morro Bay.

Work is expected to take place primarily in Washington state through October 2025 at four naval stations under firm fixed price task order awards.

Praised by organized labor and called a modest labor step by contractor groups, Homeland Security Dept. chief Alejandro N. Mayorka approved 18 months more of protected status for Venezuelan workers in the U.S. 

 New $7.5 billion loan program will partially fund non-federal dams in need of repairs.

FRA receives $6B in grant applications, four times the funds available.

Analysis noted near shutdown by utlity Con Ed in NYC, as federal energy regulator also okayed four natural gas projects but left a controversial climate change measure undecided.

Rail project moves into the design phase with $1.97 billion in grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration