Pam McFarland

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.

Construction on a $341-million water quality improvement project for California’s East Bay Municipal Utility District reached the halfway mark this summer as crews began concrete pours at portions of a large drinking water treatment facility located 65 ft beneath ground level.

Experts cite mistakes and mischaracterizations in administration report being used to bolster overhaul of U.S. environmental and energy policy. 

Michigan plant, the first U.S. commercial reactor set to operate after decommissioning, gains federal approvals despite opponents' strong safety concerns 

An $815-million water reclamation facility represents a number of firsts for the Salt Lake City Dept. of Public Utilities.<

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funding is set to boost water infrastructure resilience in North Carolina, but more than $100M in FEMA funds are in limbo due to new administrative changes at the US Dept. of Homeland Security, its parent agency, 

Temporary injunction issued Aug. 7 by Florida federal judge restrains all work for two weeks while opponents' court challenge moves forward against detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the Everglades.  

The Trump administration proposes to revoke the Obama-era endangerment finding related to greenhouse gas impacts on climate change damage—and along with it, eased vehicle tailpipe emissions regulations. 

FEMA's acting chief and his successor lacked legal authority to dismantle its infrastructure resilience program, states argue in a federal district court lawsuit.

Sources say flood water had nowhere to go during heavy precipitation and discuss role and need for FEMA