The U.S. Dept. of Energy has aired a flurry of changed permit mandates and other project boosts to meet rising demand for more and cleaner energy.

Developer Enterprise Products Partners has not begun to seek contractors for the deepwater Sea Port Oil Terminal off Freeport and related pipelines.

But project development continues in the state—with builder Skanska gaining a $861M NYC port upgrade contract—and in the US, with federal lease auctions now set for offshore Maine and Oregon as first of 12 through 2028, and NJ announcing it will seek up to 4 GW capacity add.

Owners Pembina Pipeline and the Haisla Nation say it has some of the sector's most innovative emissions control technologies, but not enough to appease environmental-advocate opponents.

Contracting veteran, 91, led the now 600-member professionals group for two decades as executive director.

New contaminant levels for two key PFAS chemicals, each 4 parts per trillion, are near the current U.S. practical detection limit, industry expert tells ENR, but EPA says more federal funding and added compliance time would boost fixes by drinking water systems.

Investment in 26 transmission projects would accommodate an added 85 GW of generating capacity to meet state load growth and greenhouse gas reduction goals by 2035, state grid operator CAISO said. 

Quebec facility would produce 70,000 metric tons annually of green hydrogen to supply the province’s developing industrial decarbonization hub.

Mechanical engineer, who designed early semiconductor and biotechnology facility clean rooms and related facilities and launched a consulting firm that was later sold to Ireland's largest engineer and project manager, died on Jan. 4.

As bodies of two missing workers were recovered, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pledges a united effort to reopen the Port of Baltimore as soon as possible amid an NTSB full investigation.