The Environmental Protection Agency on July 17 issued a direct final rule and companion proposal to extend the compliance deadlines for owners and operators to comply with the facility evaluation report part 1 and compliance deadlines for the coal combustion residual management (CCR) unit provisions in the 2024 final Legacy CCR rule.

The House on a party-line vote on July 18 adopted the Senate-passed version of roughly $9 billion in fiscal year 2025 spending rescissions requested by President Trump in June.

Citing “significant federal uncertainty,” the New York State Public Service Commission on July 17 said it was recalibrating the timeline for offshore wind transmission development.

The Lower Colorado River Authority recently delivered a mobile substation transformer to temporarily power Hunt area customers of Texas public power utility Kerrville Public Utility Board in the wake of catastrophic flooding that devastated the Hill Country region earlier this month.

Austin Energy on July 16 provided details on its new Solar Insights tool, which it said is “an innovative digital feature designed to enhance the experience of residential solar customers through the City of Austin utility customer portal.”

The Idaho National Laboratory and Microsoft have announced a collaboration to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to streamline the nuclear permitting and licensing application process.