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.
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.