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When Labor Is the Bottleneck, Procurement Inherits the Risk
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (256+ words) Construction backlogs heading into the second half of 2026 remain elevated, with many contractors reporting eight to nine months of work on the books. The problem isn't demand. It's the workforce that would need to execute that backlog, and the procurement…...
PJM Prepares for Potential Record Power Demand This Week
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (418+ words) PJM Interconnection has activated its full suite of grid reliability tools as temperatures across the Mid-Atlantic drive electricity demand toward levels the grid has not seen in two decades. As temperatures climb across much of the eastern United States, the…...
Cartons Clear California's Recyclable Labeling Bar
22+ hour, 7+ min ago (123+ words) What Costa Rica's Forest Recovery Reveals About Conservation PJM Prepares for Potential Record Power Demand This Week Permit Queue Reality Is Breaking Facilities Project Plans Infrastructure Triage: The CFO's Q3 Capital Priority Ops Guru Targets the Data Gap Behind Enterprise AI…...
What Costa Rica's Forest Recovery Reveals About Conservation
1+ day, 7+ min ago (208+ words) In 1987, forests covered just 21% of Costa Rica. Today the figure is nearly 60%, and the country has received international payment for verified emissions reductions that didn't exist a generation ago. What changed between those two numbers is less a conservation story…...
Permit Queue Reality Is Breaking Facilities Project Plans
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (284+ words) Interconnection timelines at major U. S. grid operators now average close to five years from application to commercial operation. Facilities leaders are receiving project schedules built before that number was part of the planning conversation. Grid Strategies' November 2025 analysis projected that the…...
Hazmat Transport Safety Gaps Persist, New Study Finds
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (10+ words) Environment+Energy Leader...
Infrastructure Triage: The CFO's Q3 Capital Priority
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (412+ words) Many finance teams entered 2026 with capital plans that assumed committed projects could still move on planned timelines. The infrastructure conditions that complicated those plans in Q2 are now the conditions Q3 begins with, and the portfolio decisions that follow are genuinely new…...
Ops Guru Targets the Data Gap Behind Enterprise AI Growth Push
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (12+ words) Environment+Energy Leader...
First Study Links Human Activity to Antarctic Glacier Retreat
2+ day, 7+ min ago (242+ words) A peer-reviewed study published in The Cryosphere this week establishes, for the first time, a direct causal link between human-driven climate change and the retreat of a major Antarctic glacier. The finding carries long-term significance for sea level projections and…...
Energy Officials Urge EU to Delay Methane Rule Timeline
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (312+ words) The energy ministers of Qatar, the United States, Nigeria, and Algeria jointly warned the EU on June 24 that key compliance pathways under the EU Methane Regulation (EUMR) remain undefined ahead of January 2027 import requirements, and called for a pause in…...