US Agriculture Dept. expects to announce more awards "in the coming weeks" and has picked six other cooperatives in Colorado, Louisiana, Oregon and Washington-Idaho.
Congress’s last-minute spending appropriations saga had one more unexpected twist, with the Senate approving legislation to transfer administrative control of the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium campus to the District of Columbia.
Federal funding for construction and infrastructure programs will remain at current levels until mid-March 2025, under a stopgap spending measure passed by Congress on Dec. 20.
Environmental advocates see their concerns validated about the continued buildout of new terminals, but business groups characterize the study as at least a partial political justification for the administration pause of new project approvals.
A large renewable energy project cancellation in New York and the threat of Trump administration growth curbs are raising market jitters, but more federal project approvals are pushing forward.
How a federal project review challenge is decided next year by US Supreme Court justices could limit the scope of what has been bedrock environmental law.
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