Items Tagged with 'Biden administration'

More than $421 million from the EPA will fund 21 projects across four states aimed at reducing pollution and combating climate change.

The 21 projects total $325 million and include weatherization, workforce development, wastewater treatment and energy efficiency retrofits among other endeavors. 

The chipmaker is planning a $525-million expansion of its manufacturing plant as well a conversion to majority U.S. ownership. 

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.

The proposal includes new $8-billion, five-year program to upgrade FAA facilities, radar systems.

Most of President Joe Biden’s March 7 speech to a joint session of Congress centered on domestic issues, but he also announced one construction-related overseas action.  

Greenhouse gas cuts from already built gas-fired power plants are being addressed in a separate rulemaking, agency chief Michael Regan said, with some in Congress pushing that it be proposed by year end.

New extension buys lawmakers more time to work out differences on full-year fiscal 2024 agency spending levels.

A top DOE official defends the halt as needed to determine if more capacity will affect environmental impacts and global gas prices—but a House-passed bill that removes agency approval authority now is up for Senate consideration.

The planned 80,000-sq-ft library and visitors center will be the Arizona home for the Washington, D.C.-based McCain Institute.