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6 days ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has released draft legislation to solicit feedback on ways to revamp the Federal Emergency Management Agency without abolishing it altogether. The May 8 release of the bipartisan legislative language was nearly overshadowed by other events in a week in which the beleaguered agency came under attack.
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6 days ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released draft bipartisan legislation May 8 to solicit feedback on ways to revamp the Federal Emergency Management Agency without abolishing it altogether. But that step was nearly overshadowed in a week in which the beleaguered agency came under new attack. Acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton was fired shortly after telling a congressional oversight committee May 7 that the agency should continue to exist.
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2 weeks ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
The developer of an enhanced rock weathering technology will receive $50 million to scale up and expand use of crushed basalt, a type of volcanic rock, to both reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and improve soil conditions in the Global South. Houston-based Mati Carbon was the top winner of the XPRIZE contest, a global competition to boost promising and scalable carbon dioxide removal solutions.
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2 weeks ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
Mati Carbon, a developer of an enhanced rock weathering technology that reduces atmospheric carbon dioxide, on April 23 garnered the top, $50-million prize of the XPRIZE contest, a global competition aimed at boosting promising and scalable carbon dioxide removal solutions.
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1 month ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
The Trump administration’s cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for resilience projects through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program is leaving the fate of numerous resilience projects already in the planning and design phases in a state of uncertainty. FEMA says it is ending the BRIC program and cancelling all BRIC applications from fiscal 2020-23.
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1 month ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland |Derek Lacey |clients. One
The Trump administration’s cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants for resilience projects through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program is leaving the fate of numerous resilience projects already in the planning and design phases in a state of uncertainty. FEMA says it is ending the BRIC program and cancelling all BRIC applications from fiscal 2020-23.
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1 month ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland |clients. One
Opponents of a Trump executive order aimed at boosting coal production in the U.S. are lining up to challenge it, stating that the president’s action undermines states’ authority to set their own policies and would set the nation back in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which have declined by more than 16% over 2005 levels, according to latest U.S. EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, released in April 2024.
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1 month ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
Senate lawmakers voted 51-48 to approve a revised version of a GOP-crafted budget resolution in the early hours of April 5, with just two Republicans breaking ranks, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine, to join with all Democrats who opposed it. Budget resolutions are non-binding and don’t become law, but when both the House and Senate pass identical resolutions, they move to advance a reconciliation bill that ultimately can become law.
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1 month ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat whom President Donald Trump removed from the board labor dispute panel before her five-year term was set to expire in August 2028, wants the U.S. Appeals Court in Washngton, D.C. to review a hold on her reinstatement after a lower court ruled that her termination was illegal. The board oversees union organizing and collective bargaining disputes and hears cases where violations of the National Labor Relations Act are alleged.
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1 month ago | 
enr.com | Pam Hunter McFarland
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat who President Donald Trump removed from the labor dispute panel long before her five-year term was set to expire, wants the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington, D.C. to review a hold on her reinstatement after a lower court ruled that her termination was illegal. The board oversees union organizing and collective bargaining disputes and hears cases where violations of the National Labor Relations Act are alleged.
