Articles by Pam McFarland

U.S. Bureau of Land Management releases proposal to direct expanded development on about 31 million acres in 11 western states.

Addressing delegates at the party nominating convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris touched on energy and immigration issues but did not air specific policy changes to the existing platform outlined by President Joe Biden. 

With multiplying effects of more frequent and intense storms, infrastructure investments—despite recent historic funding—must take into account how to get the most bang for the buck, say climate change experts.

New program will support development of more accurate product content rating system to boost agency and contractor purchases of low-carbon construction materials. 

Strong endorsements come in for the Minnesota governor from organized labor and state AGC chapter, but Associated Builders and Contractors criticized Walz's record.

Clean power developer Hecate aims to build arrays on 8,000 acres of federal land at former nuclear weapons megasite under Biden program to use expanses of real estate at locations across the US for renewables. 

The DOT bill also proposes a "fix" for a long-standing highway funding issue.

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.