The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, meant to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.
Investments in transmission and distribution infrastructure would be a better way to make the electric grid more resilient and reliable, representatives of a variety of energy interests told the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s energy subcommittee at recent hearings.
Highway guardrail manufacturer Trinity Industries Inc. won the latest round in a long-running legal fight, when a federal appeals court overturned an earlier $682.4-million judgment against the Dallas-based company.
When Edwin R. Nolan, the U.S. ambassador to Suriname, held the embassy’s annual July 4 celebration this year in Paramaribo, it didn’t take place at the ambassador’s residence—where it has been held before—but at the new embassy complex, completed less than a year earlier.