The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to continue to press forward with new rules defining the types of rivers, streams and wetlands that fall under Clean Water Act protections.
The ethics and standard-of-care witness in the negligence trial of two engineering firms connected to the 2015 Flint, Mich., water crisis said in three days of testimony that both firms failed to act to stop or limit the public danger despite having the knowledge and obligation to alert higher government authorities.
Construction recently started on “The Embrace,” Boston’s monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, with firms set to install the 66,000-lb bronze sculpture before MLK Day.
While total financed capacity fell 11% in 2021, most was for relatively low-cost onshore wind, with the 24.6 GW funded a record for a single year, says trade group WindEurope.