Mary B. Powers

Flatiron Settles $2M Suit With Sub Over Misaligned Bridge Pier

April 30, 2021

Federal court pact settles litigation over surveying error on completed $206M segment of long running $4.5B Washington state bridge replacement and interstate connection program.

Legal

High Court Reveals Little in Anticipated Pipeline Route Dispute Decision

Mary B. Powers

April 29, 2021

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In oral arguments April 28, justices showed potential to favor developer and state in 'taking' NJ-owned land for 116- mile gas line; court will rule by July.

Power Grid Upgrade Technology Gets $8.25B Federal Boost

Mary B. Powers

April 28, 2021

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US Energy Dept. cites report of 22 'shovel ready' high-voltage transmission and clean-energy link projects valued at $33 billion, but analysis claims half won't be built 'near term' due to planning and permitting hurdles.

Green Hydrogen Plants Scale Up in North America

Mary B. Powers

April 26, 2021

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Record-size facilities will be designed and built in Louisiana and Quebec under EPC contracts won by Germany's Thyssenkrupp.

ExxonMobil Floats $100B CO2 Storage Project For Houston Industrial Zone

Project would send captured carbon dioxide emissions into geologic formations below Gulf of Mexico

Mary B. Powers

April 21, 2021

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Proposed storage in Gulf of Mexico formations for energy giant and regional emitters comes as feds tout plan for 25 clean energy demo plants in impacted fossil-fuel hubs.

Environmental Policy

White House, Congress Accelerate Push To Fix Widespread PFAS Pollution

Mary B. Powers

April 21, 2021

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Feds promise millions more for study, cleanup and control of 'forever' chemicals,' joining states in ramped-up scrutiny; EPA tasked to develop whole agency strategy by mid August, but Wisconsin manufacturers sue state over planned regulation

UPDATE: Fla. Governor Closes Leaking Phosphate Waste Site, $15.4M for Emergency Cleanup

Mary B. Powers Bruce Buckley

April 13, 2021

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Legislature will earmark $100M to start closure, a project one legislator estimated could cost double that; crews are removing more than 35 million gallons of contaminated liquid per day from the pond

Manufacturing

UPDATE: Trade Secrets Pact Allows Resumed Work on $2.6B Ga. Battery Plant

Mary B. Powers

April 11, 2021

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South Korea's SK Innovation agreed April 11 to $1.8B payment to rival battery maker LG Energy Solutions as Biden administration ruling loomed; LG eyes second plant site in Tennessee.

US OKs Dakota Access Oil Line To Operate During Review

Mary B. Powers

April 11, 2021

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Virginia's $5B Mountain Valley pipeline now faces new schedule challenges.

Federal Court Throws Out Two Trump-Eased Clean Air Rules

Mary B. Powers

April 6, 2021

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Revoked is one that delayed state mandates to meet landfill GHG emission controls, and another that exempted most stationary pollution sources from protective standards