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.
Majority decision overturning 40-years of legal precedent in court deference to federal agency expertise in rulemaking leaves many unanswered questions.
Funding deal will push forward two-decade-plus effort to build barriers and take other steps to prevent invasive species migration into the key U.S. shipping and recreation hub.
Proposed rule is one of the first federal regulations, and the first by OSHA, to be issued after the Supreme Court’s June 28 Loper Bright v Raimondo decision setting potential brakes on agency rulemaking.
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.