Articles by Pam McFarland

Departing Democrat Allison Clements will be replaced, as two new Democrats and a Republican are set to join the independent regulator of interstate oil and gas, hydropower and transmission projects.

With nearly all seven states within the 250,000-sq-mile Colorado River basin scrambling to conserve their apportionments from the river system’s increasingly depleted resources, interest in securing alternative local drinking water supplies is soaring.

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.

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

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

EPA announces first of three distributions of IIJA funding for lead service line replacements. 

The White House releases a rule, effective on July 1, to ensure that climate change and environmental justice issues are considered during project NEPA reviews. 

The point of contention in the EPA-issued mandates is the technical and economic viability of carbon capture and storage technology. 

California rule sets limits on a carcinogen that are the same as those invalidated in 2017. 

For his tireless drive to engineer enduring solutions for a disaster-plagued world and his persistent push for both technical innovation and seismic design information exchange, ENR’s editorial team has selected Kit Miyamoto to receive its 59th Award of Excellence.