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Agency plan for so-called forever chemicals include regulation under the federal Safe Water Drinking Act and under the Superfund law

A new analysis from the First Street Foundation shows that a quarter of the country's critical infrastructure may be at risk of becoming inoperable from flooding. 

Stopgap spending bill extends through Dec. 3.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan calls for a 12-ft elevation storm surge wall to ring the Charleston Peninsula.

Work recently started on a $3.6-million overhaul and modernization of the Watershops Pond Dam in Springfield, Mass.

Projection for 1.3-GW Glen Canyon plant comes as total US hydropower output to fall 14% in 2021 due to western states' rain shortfall, says US Energy Dept.

Package also would suspend debt limit, drawing heavy GOP opposition.