Items Tagged with 'legislation'

Could a new federal AI framework reshape workforce planning and data-center development as contractors ramp up investment in artificial intelligence?

State lawmakers vote to pause construction of large data centers even as ISO New England reports only modest pipeline activity, sharpening questions over who pays for future grid impacts.

More states follow municipalities to block or restrict data center expansion, claiming they need time to hear from constituents, developers and power agencies—while big tech firms will sign, at March 4 White House event, administration-pushed "pledge" to cover power costs, but with few details confirmed.

Abigail Ross Hopper, the outgoing president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, has been the face and voice of the influential clean power advocacy group since she took the top role in 2017, and widely credited for the sector’s huge growth over nearly a decade.

Illinois lawmakers moved quietly overnight on a major transportation bill that could reshape how the state funds and manages transit.

Public works departments and the design and construction firms that work for them already see fallout from the suspension of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

As the Trump administration scales back green transition progress on the federal level, states and cities are using all tools at their disposal, and finding new ones, to keep reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Chicago Bears finalize Arlington Heights dome plan, with construction hinging on Illinois’ fall vote for a tax-certainty bill to launch work in 2025.

GOP-led panels in the House voted to pare back spending on renewable energy and lower-carbon infrastructure, but a fight over extending tax cuts looms.

But contractors are skeptical the measure will reduce their risk sufficiently to start building multifamily projects again.