With more than $12 billion in IIJA funding allocated to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies, AEC firms will need to innovate together to engineer, procure and construct pilot and demonstration projects that prove CCS technology can be adopted at a commercial scale.

Under a $5.7-million task order from the National Park Service, a team of HDR and Moffatt & Nichol is working on design and other early-stage work for an initial segment of the project.

PCS Nitrogen will treat wastewater from the site at a newly built plant.

The U.S. Supreme Court has limited the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate power plant greenhouse gas emissions, and though the court’s opinion referred to a fairly narrow provision within the Clean Air Act, the ruling potentially places broad restrictions on the ability of federal agencies to enact regulations to address the climate crisis, according to several sources.

Firm announced in June it had been hired to work with the Portland, Maine, Water District to develop a master plan to evaluate current and future biosolids management.

Stakeholders differ on whether the US Transportation Dept. has congressional authority to enact a rule unrelated to its mission.