Items Tagged with 'Interior Dept.'

Colorado River states approve emergency Flaming Gorge releases as Lake Powell nears hydropower thresholds, signaling deeper infrastructure constraints and looming capital investment decisions across the basin.

About $1 billion in federal funding distributed through the Interior Dept. will go toward rehabilitating canals, tunnels and storage systems across six Western states, but America's water infrastructure deficit continues widening faster than investment can close it.

Owner of largest US offshore wind project and government will be in federal court Jan. 16 in Norfolk,Va., to debate preliminary injunction against Trump construction shutdown based on claimed "national security" concerns—with four NE region governors weighing similar legal action for halted projects and demanding an administration briefing

Norway-based developer said it eyes court action, with construction of the New York project started last year by Skanska.

Trump administration waiver of environmental rules in pushing wall construction damaged federal lands, disrupted natural water flow and wildlife migration and destroyed sacred tribal areas, U.S. Government Accountability Office audit claims.

A new Interior Dept. rule largely echoes changes made in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that were later walked back under the Trump administration. 

Nominee Michael Connor also was commissioner for the Bureau of Reclamation in the Obama administration.