Dominion Energy is set to build a $2-billion pumped hydroelectric storage unit in southwest Virginia to accommodate 240 MW of solar generation it plans to add every year through 2032, the company confirmed.
Pipeline-sector observers are watching whether a U.S. appellate court ruling, which last month canceled federal approval of a $3.2-billion Florida natural-gas line and two others for not adequately considering the projects’ contribution to greenhouse-gas emissions, could affect approvals of other planned projects.
The Tennessee Valley Authority expects it will cost about $2 billion to excavate leaking coal-ash storage ponds at its Cumberland River power plant, near Nashville.
Twenty-five years ago, German contracting and industrial giant Bauer AG, based near Munich, formed a corporate unit to contend with contamination on its local construction sites. Now it's a $200-million-plus global business.
Companies held their own in 2016 even as an election, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental sector.
The Top 200 Environmental Firms held their own in 2016, even as the election of Donald Trump, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental marketplace.