Pam is ENR’s senior editor for government coverage, focusing on federal environmental and labor issues as they relate to the construction industry. She has a degree in journalism and an M.A. in writing fiction, and has worked previously as both an editor at ENR (2007-2016) and as a freelancer for a variety of publications and clients. One of her favorite gigs involved writing about stars, black holes and the mysteries of the universe for NASA.
Addressing delegates at the party nominating convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris touched on energy and immigration issues but did not air specific policy changes to the existing platform outlined by President Joe Biden.
With multiplying effects of more frequent and intense storms, infrastructure investments—despite recent historic funding—must take into account how to get the most bang for the buck, say climate change experts.
New program will support development of more accurate product content rating system to boost agency and contractor purchases of low-carbon construction materials.
Strong endorsements come in for the Minnesota governor from organized labor and state AGC chapter, but Associated Builders and Contractors criticized Walz's record.
Clean power developer Hecate aims to build arrays on 8,000 acres of federal land at former nuclear weapons megasite under Biden program to use expanses of real estate at locations across the US for renewables.
Environmental advocates near the Fayetteville, N.C., Chemours chemicals plant are cheering a court ruling that upholds the federal warning issued for the GenX class of substances.
25 US grantees were selected from 300 applicants, some of them regional coalitions, to address air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions—with Pennsylvania and California as big winners.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump would use financial gains from oil and gas drilling to fund highways and some other infrastructure, he told Republican supporters at the party's national convention.