Environmental & Regulations

The immense gap between America's ambitious infrastructure goals and the sluggish pace of project approval has long been a source of national frustration, but a new digital frontier is finally opening. For decades, the nation's critical projects—from highways and bridges to energy grids and

With the battle over federal furnace efficiency standards now before the Supreme Court, we're joined by our utilities expert, Christopher Hailstone, to unpack the technical, legal, and practical implications of this landmark case. For years, Christopher has navigated the complex intersection of

The ambitious vision of a seamless, coast-to-coast network of electric vehicle charging stations, a cornerstone of national infrastructure policy, was abruptly thrown into legal turmoil before a federal court intervened decisively. A landmark $5 billion program, designed to bridge the gaps in

A profound chasm has formed between official state assurances and the lived reality of residents in Martins Ferry, Ohio, where a facility once brimming with over 10,000 tons of radioactive waste from oil and gas operations has been declared clean, yet deep-seated fears of lasting contamination

A convergence of structural, economic, and environmental factors has locked the United States into a trajectory of rapidly escalating electricity bills, creating a formidable affordability crisis that now extends deep into middle-income households. This is not a temporary anomaly or a short-term

A modern economy built on digital innovation and clean energy is finding itself tethered to an electrical grid designed for a bygone industrial era, now buckling under the unprecedented strain of new demands. The rapid expansion of power-hungry data centers, the accelerating adoption of electric