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.
Japan's plan to discharge treated wastewater from the stricken plant into the sea would have "negligible" health and environmental impacts, says International Atomic Energy Agency.
To operate underground Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for waste storage, US Energy Dept. must update public on efforts to identify another nuclear repository site out of state.
U.S. EPA is set to invest appropriated funds for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects, PFAS treatment efforts and lead service line replacement.
Water sector professionals met in Toronto to discuss challenges of aging infrastructure, climate change and replacement of lead and copper water service lines.
Justices ruled unanimously that two Idaho landowners, in their second appeal before the court, should not be fined for building near wetlands that did not appear to have a direct surface connection to a larger body of water—but four cautioned in a separate opinion that the majority went too far in reducing federally protected areas.
Proposal is Biden administration’s take on reducing carbon
emissions from power generation sources and would replace the Trump
administration less-stringent Affordable Clean Energy Rule enacted in
2019.
In early December 2021, the Denver International Airport made headlines across the U.S. after a hot water pipe broke a month before a major terminal expansion project was expected to complete.
The West Virginia Democrat new project permit reform package includes deadlines and limits for NEPA reviews and for court challenges of infrastructure project approvals.
Senate Democrats call Republican-backed House bill passed on April 26 as "dead on arrival," but measures in it to speed permitting could gain bipartisan support.