The program focuses on 11 buildings projects, and is intended to reduce emissions associated with federal construction and promote wider adoption of environmental product declarations for building materials.

Construction begins to replace the troublesome 127-year-old Norwalk, Conn., railroad crossing with a structure better suited to serve the region’s growing volume of passenger rail traffic.

The "right-to-control theory" used by federal prosecutors "cannot form the basis for a conviction under federal fraud statutes,” Justice Clarence Thomas said in the unanimous opinion, with the high court also ruling on disputes related to the controversial Mountain Valley gas pipeline and to state mandates affecting interstate commerce.

The effort to build the 87.8-MW Kakono power plant secured $300 million in funding, paving the way for its engineering, procurement and construction phase to begin.

The automaker is in a dispute with the Canadian government over subsidies for its $3.7-billion electric vehicle battery plant project.

The proposed standard would include minimum requirements aimed at reducing the spread of airborne viruses, such as COVID-19.

U.S. Treasury Dept. details Inflation Reduction Act investment and production tax incentives that could unlock billions for more domestic manufacturing, but projects could still gain credits even with use of polysilicon wafers that one trade group said is 95% imported from China.

Inflation pressures continue to be an issue for projects funded under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The meltwater from the record-setting Sierra Nevada snowpack presents a flood danger officials are already planning to address. 

Proposal is Biden administration’s take on reducing carbon emissions from power generation sources and would replace the Trump administration less-stringent Affordable Clean Energy Rule enacted in 2019.