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Mary B. Powers

Mary B. Powers

Mary B. Powers has reported on engineering and construction issues in the global energy and environmental sectors for more than 30 years from Washington, D.C. and Birmingham, Ala.  She formerly wrote for the Platt's group of energy sector publications under McGraw Hill and S&P Global that included Inside Energy and Megawatt Daily, and was state editor for the Lexington, Ky., Herald Leader. Mary has a master’s degree in journalism from The American University.

 

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Clean Energy Manufacturing

Work Starts on $2B West Virginia Hydrogen Plant to Power Data Megasite

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September 20, 2023
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Mountaineer GigaSystem would produce blue hydrogen from natural gas and store CO2 emissions underground on state-owned property, with its first phase to open in 2028. 


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Power Construction

Study: Permits, Cost Allocation Block Starts of Transmission Projects Worth $64B

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September 16, 2023
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Work to add higher-voltage capacity and 10,000 miles of new lines faces key issues in siting, cost allocation and regulatory tension, says transmission sector consultant Grid Strategies in Sept. 13 report. 


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2023 Top 400 Sourcebook: Texas LNG Terminal Contracts Flow

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September 14, 2023
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Construction is underway, with new contracts awarded, on the first phase of Sempra Infrastructure’s $13-billion Port Arthur LNG export terminal in Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, following the energy firm’s award to Bechtel Energy of an EPC contract to manage the two-train project.


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US Energy Dept. Aims $15.5B for EV, Battery Plant Retooling

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September 2, 2023
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Federal grants and loans under new infrastructure funding laws will favor applicants with strategies to retain and attract skilled workers for “high-quality jobs," a move observers say is timed with escalating auto industry labor battles.  


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Feds Share Labor Rules Detail for Big Energy Project Tax Credits

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August 30, 2023
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Incentives tied to craft worker compensation and apprenticeship on clean energy projects won't require developers to have project labor agreements, says the U.S. Treasury Dept.


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US Moves to Come Clean on PFAS in Drinking Water

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August 30, 2023
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Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.


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Feds Tout Wind Market Even as Gulf Auction Draws Just One Bid

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August 29, 2023
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Germany-based RWE, which is developing offshore projects in New York and California, bid $5.6 million for its 102,000-acre site off Louisiana in the Aug. 29 Gulf of Mexico lease sale,


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Eight States Join Suit Against $930M N.J.-Pa. Gas Line OK'd by Feds

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August 26, 2023
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States say Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not consider New Jersey's claims that added capacity was not needed and would violate its climate change law.


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KBR Denies Report of $5B Bid to Buy Jacobs' Government Unit

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August 21, 2023
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Jacobs says planned spinoff continues of its Critical Mission Solutions business, which employs 16,000 of its 60,000 employees, but KBR said on Aug. 21 that a rumored purchase "does not align with ... its capital deployment and strategic priorities and thus is not being pursued.”



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Project Impacts Weighed of Montana Youths' Climate Suit Court Win

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August 17, 2023
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A $283-million gas power plant being built near Billings may face added environmental scrutiny as state Supreme Court weighs Aug. 14 lower court ruling of state law barring greenhouse gas emission impact review as unconstitutional.


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