Articles by Pam McFarland

Environmental advocates near the Fayetteville, N.C., Chemours chemicals plant are cheering a court ruling that upholds the federal warning issued for the GenX class of substances.

25 US grantees were selected from 300 applicants, some of them regional coalitions, to address air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions—with Pennsylvania and California as big winners.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump would use financial gains from oil and gas drilling to fund highways and some other infrastructure, he told Republican supporters at the party's national convention.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards the first of seven large contracts to reduce flood risk on Staten Island. 

With the August recess drawing near, congressional appropriators are making progress on spending bills for fiscal 2025.

Agency publishes updated flood standard requiring project participants who rebuild after disaster to consider future flood risks. 

Majority decision overturning 40-years of legal precedent in court deference to federal agency expertise in rulemaking leaves many unanswered questions. 

Funding deal will push forward two-decade-plus effort to build barriers and take other steps to prevent invasive species migration into the key U.S. shipping and recreation hub.

Proposed rule is one of the first federal regulations, and the first by OSHA, to be issued after the Supreme Court’s June 28 Loper Bright v Raimondo decision setting potential brakes on agency rulemaking.

Departing Democrat Allison Clements will be replaced, as two new Democrats and a Republican are set to join the independent regulator of interstate oil and gas, hydropower and transmission projects.