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As wildfires become more common across the West Coast, states are enacting protections for outdoor workers likely to be exposed to smoke.

The Bureau of Reclamation opened a funding opportunity for project proposals to result in measurable water savings in Lake Mead at the Arizona-Nevada border, or to add new water to an applicant’s supply to cut use of river water,

After years of battle, firm that managed remediation of 2008 TVA power plant coal ash site breach in Tennessee sending waste over 300 acres and costing about $1 billion, agrees to undisclosed monetary deal with up to 200 workers who had sought many millions.

The city plans to upgrade a water reclamation facility and build an advanced purification facility to protect its water supply against drought.

Hundreds of ash disposal sites at inactive US power plants could be subject to new federal safety regulation under a rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Gaps in construction oversight and in owner TC Energy's standards, policies and administrative controls were the root cause of last year's massive spill into Kansas waterways, says a new third-party independent analysis, with redacted details.

Contractor Infrastructure Energy and Alternatives faces $100M jury award liability in landowners' suit claiming sediment runoff from 100-MW project impacted 21-acre lake on their adjacent property.

Funding from the 2021 infrastructure law will expedite 12 projects targeting carbon emissions from power generation and other industrial operations, said US Energy Dept. officials.

The proposed standard would include minimum requirements aimed at reducing the spread of airborne viruses, such as COVID-19.

Proposal is Biden administration’s take on reducing carbon emissions from power generation sources and would replace the Trump administration less-stringent Affordable Clean Energy Rule enacted in 2019.