Funds are earmarked for 42 projects in as many states and D.C., with an added $28 million set for award to 15 states to expand and train the US green buiilding workforce.

But in a surprise, court majority agrees to not block federal EPA GHG emissions rule from taking effect as it weighs opponents legal challenge to the mandate.

Form Energy will expand its just completed scaled-up iron-air system factory in West Virginia, also announcing $1.2 billion in firm investments and plans to deploy batteries at commercial scale, with Mortenson as contractor for the first project in Minnesota. 

Amazon also follows Microsoft in spinning up nuclear energy, with plan to build small reactors in Washington state and Virginia and leading $500 investment in SMR technology.

Contract for second-stage engineering study on planned 462-MW small modular reactor project uses technology of NuScale Power, of which Fluor is a majority investor. 

Financial, legal and political bumps did not dent the global environmental services market for ENR’s Top 200 Environmental Firms, based on results reported in this year’s ranking.

But justices declined to block business group and red state suits against tougher curbs on mercury pollutants from coal-fired power plants and methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities. 

Pennsylvania plant unit, which functioned until 2019 after near meltdown in 1979 of an adjacent unit, is set to boost the tech giant's data centers, while Michigan's Palisades nuclear plant will get $1.5B from feds to revamp the site, the US Energy Dept. said Sept. 30—but new concerns have been raised related to both facility restarts.

When completed, the three-train terminal would be one of the largest in the U.S., with a capacity of about 16.5 million tons per year, according to developer Energy Transfer.

Infrastructure agency chiefs need new ways to keep coastal and urban structures, critical bridge crossings and even public sector diversity programs hardened against growing climate change and human-caused risks, they told an ENR conference in Manhattan on Sept. 16.