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Justices will rule on arguments against EPA "generic" effluent discharge permitting, but declined to consider landowners' eminent domain challenge on the Mountain Valley gas pipeline.

Projects coming online as soon as 2025 can qualify for credits, including some using traditional fossil fuels, with additional amounts added for factors including prevailing wages, apprenticeship, domestic content, and energy community location.

EPA's rejects Alabama's Dept. of  Environmental Management plan to oversee permitting of coal ash disposal plans. 

New York's MTA receives the largest grant, at $157 million, for upgrades to the New York City subway system.

Contractors have been chosen for two jail replacement projects located in Queens and the Bronx.

Measure authorizes $2.3B for eight new or modified Corps projects.

Steel, concrete interests claim proposed legislation disrupts the competitive process and could strain industry supply chain.

Officials were assessing the condition of the Pelican Island Causeway Bridge after a barge collided with it.

The inadequacy of existing safeguards to protect bridges and other infrastructure from ever-larger container ships was considered in a House hearing May 15, a day after the NTSB released its preliminary report on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

As federal appropriations season begins in earnest, the latest EPA Clean Watershed Survey shows an enormous need for funding—more than $630 billion.