U.S. Energy Dept selected team, also including Fluor and Cavendish Nuclear, to manage decontamination and decommissioning work at the shuttered Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio.
Project is also core to separate lawsuit by 16 plaintiffs, aged five to 22, against Montana for violating state constitution in promoting fossil fuel development
Work is set to resume on 175-MW Yellowstone County project, with Burns & McDonnell as EPC contractor, after new court ruling that followed revised state law banning regulators from weighing greenhouse gas emissions in permit reviews of new energy projects.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as the U.K. Met Office, have introduced climate assessment mapping websites backed by government data sources.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy will invest more than $231 million to accelerate
carbon management at large-scale U.S. geologic storage areas and support new grid resilience and energy storage projects and research for nine states
and three Tribes.
Japan's plan to discharge treated wastewater from the stricken plant into the sea would have "negligible" health and environmental impacts, says International Atomic Energy Agency.
To operate underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for waste storage, US Energy Dept. must update public on efforts to identify another nuclear repository site out of state.
New Jersey AG says firm Solvay would fund remediation at and around its 243-acre plant, where industrial plastics, coatings and other products were made for more than 30 years