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The National Nuclear Security Administration’s harshly worded rejection of up to $2.7 million in performance bonuses for 2016 construction progress at the Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project in Aiken, S.C., has prompted a fiery rebuttal from contractor CB&I Areva MOX Services.

Florida Power & Light is now weighing a new course of action after the state Supreme Court ordered added environmental compliance.

Sabal Trail Transmission LLC officials say construction of the company’s $3.2-billion natural-gas pipeline, approved in February 2016, is now 88% complete.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport became the first U.S. international airfield to let drones fly within its controlled airspace when Atkins and its design-team partners, 3DR and Autodesk, flew a series of seven flights during a four-hour period on the morning of Jan. 10.

Concerns about possible construction cost hikes at two U.S. nuclear expansion projects have escalated.

Developed long-running energy-modeling game, “The Wizard Show,” that seeks to correct industry peers’ mistaken assumptions about sustainable building design.

A group of North Carolina politicians are seeking to shut down a nearly complete, $400-million, 22,000-acre wind farm in northeastern North Carolina, citing allegedly harmful impacts from “industrial wind-energy interference” to a Navy radar facility.

Last spring, at the Plant Vogtle construction site near Waynesboro, Ga., executives representing Georgia Power, its lead contractors and trades groups gathered to commit publicly to turning around the $16-billion nuclear power-plant expansion.