U.S. manufacturer First Solar will invest $1B-plus in new Alabama PV production facility as Italy's Enel searches for stateside plant location—but feds have a Dec. 1 deadline to rule on tariffs for component imports from four Asian countries.

Projects totaling 500 MW in three states that resolved alleged federal permit and stormwater rule violations were built by Swinerton and a spinoff firm, which were not settlement parties but whose enforcement status EPA declined to confirm.

Utility says "first of a kind" utility-scale pilot at Kentucky coal plant could expand to ash impoundments at 20 other sites, pending environmental review and regulator approval.

Suffolk Construction and subcontractor NorthStar Contractng Group face federal penalties for incident that injured three workers, one seriously.

US Environmental Protection Agency tougher rule that would cut emissions 87% below 2005 levels and update a 2021 proposal comes as UN launches a satellite-based system to scale up global efforts to detect and mitigate major emissions sources.

EPC contract for 300-MW facility in Permian Basin, which will produce power and industrial grade CO₂ that can be sold or sequestered, will be awarded by year end.

Protestors alleged that Energy Dept. evaluation of the WIPP nuclear disposal site contract winner was 'unreasonable,' but the U.S. Government Accountability Office ruled their claims as "without merit."

Canada will build nation’s first small modular reactor (SMR), with $717M in federal bank funding, while TVA chooses same design for up to 20 new units, says CEO

First 300-MW modular facility in Ontario, to be built at site of existing 3,500-MW nuclear plant, may cost billions; US power producer TVA also will use GE Hitachi BWRX-300 design in up to 20 SMRs.