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U.S. Energy Dept. did not detail why it withdrew its conditional loan to Texas-based Microvast made last year for a $500M plant in Kentucky, but the firm's founder disputes Congressional allegations of alleged ties to the Chinese government voiced in letters to the agency since last year.

After years of battle, firm that managed remediation of 2008 TVA power plant coal ash site breach in Tennessee sending waste over 300 acres and costing about $1 billion, agrees to undisclosed monetary deal with up to 200 workers who had sought many millions.

Calculating the costs of some project delays requires the use of advanced mathematics but the discipline may not have progressed far enough to measure what’s been lost with the suspension of the New England Clean Energy Connect project.

The utility-scale projects—the 800-MW, estimated $3-billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts and the 132-MW, estimated $637-million South Fork project off New York—could begin to generate power this year, their developers say.

British Columbis safety regulator cites extended police criminal probe for keeping secret results of its probe into one of North America's deadliest crane collapses that in July 2021 killed four site workers at a 25-story condo project and an engineer in an adjacent building.

The U.K.-based engineer's board had agreed to talks with Apollo after its latest $2.1-billion purchase offer made in April, but neither company would say why discussions ended on an official deal.

Massachusetts energy storage company Form Energy will start foundation work in June on the previously announced $760-million manufacturing factory on a former steel mill site.

Citing the 2022 Pittsburgh span failure, the National Transportation Safety Board says bridges made of uncoated weathering steel plate could face accelerated deterioration and potential collapse without immediate action.

Massive fire destroyed the residential complex being built in the city's SouthPark neighborhood, leading to multiple rescues and two deaths.

Gaps in construction oversight and in owner TC Energy's standards, policies and administrative controls were the root cause of last year's massive spill into Kansas waterways, says a new third-party independent analysis, with redacted details.