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The heavy and civil engineering category led the way, adding 10,700 jobs, while specialty trade contractors added 7,300 positions, and building contractors added 6,600 jobs.

Industry officials praise permitting reform provisions, and a move to fast-track completion of the controversial Mountain Valley gas pipeline project withstands a last-minute challenge.

Construction is expected to begin this fall but to date no designer or contractor has been named.

But Biden, legislators punt on broad transmission expansion in deadline-pushed debt ceiling compromise bill that is set for House and Senate votes this week.

The measure includes permitting reform, spending caps and a boost for the Mountain Valley gas pipeline project.

Justices ruled unanimously that two Idaho landowners, in their second appeal before the court, should not be fined for building near wetlands that did not appear to have a direct surface connection to a larger body of water—but four cautioned in a separate opinion that the majority went too far in reducing federally protected areas.

Group cites need for better crew safeguards, citing its member firm study that work zones are either as dangerous, or more dangerous, than they were a year ago.

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,

U.S. Energy Dept. did not detail why it withdrew its conditional loan to Texas-based Microvast made last year for a $500M plant in Kentucky, but the firm's founder disputes Congressional allegations of alleged ties to the Chinese government voiced in letters to the agency since last year.

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