Infrastructure

"A study has found most cities receive significantly more rain than nearby rural regions, an effect that has become more pronounced over the past two decades."

"The administration called it the “largest investment in rural electrification” since the New Deal."

"The Tennessee Valley Authority is coming under fire from energy experts and environmentalists for building gas plants instead of renewables."

"The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?"

"Environmental advocates, landowners, and fishers filed two petitions with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday, challenging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) recent authorization for the construction of a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. FERC approved the Calcasieu Pass (CP2) LNG terminal proposed by Venture Global in a 2-1 vote in late June."

"Four years after a string of disasters plagued one Louisiana town, its residents are still on the move."

"Millions of people in Pakistan continue to live along the path of floodwaters, showing neither people nor the government have learned any lessons from the 2022 devastating floods that killed 1,737 people, experts said Thursday, as an aid group said half of the victims among 300 people killed by rains since July are children."

"Bacteria linked to severe lung infections recently found in EPA’s Chicago office has also cropped up in three more EPA buildings, internal emails show."

"The state has identified hundreds of thousands of homes that will need to be abandoned. But at one flagship buyout, only one in 10 eligible homeowners signed up."

"San Francisco-based startup Zum wants to turn electric school-bus fleets into grid batteries. This 74-bus depot in Oakland is testing the idea at large scale."