Articles by Pam Hunter McFarland

Industry officials credit Ted Henifin, general manager of the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, with conceptualizing an innovative initiative that addresses multiple issues under one program: meeting ever-toughening water-quality requirements, ensuring sufficient supplies of drinking water, and slowing and potentially even reversing dramatic land subsidence due to sea-level rise and groundwater over-pumping.

Proposed stringent emission-reduction targets through 2030 in the nation’s only interstate cap-and-trade program will continue the already well-established market shift toward renewable and efficient power-generation construction projects, industry analysts say.

A $25-million demonstration project under construction in Suffolk, Va., will show officials from the Hampton Roads Sanitation District how to address a myriad of problems facing the water utility, including a rapidly shrinking water aquifer, land subsidence and a potential checklist of requirements for restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.

As the Trump administration plans to curtail regulation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investment, oversight and enforcement, design firms in the environmental sector may worry about the market.

President-elect Trump’s selections for top Cabinet posts represent a marked departure from the policies of the Obama administration.