Environment

State grant deadlines, not federal dollars, are driving a genuine procurement surge even as the Trump administration tries to cancel Minnesota's $62M federal solar award.

The city's treatment facility is one of its biggest electricity users, and new federal incentives have made a solar fix financially compelling.

Act 37's hard application deadline and $5M in new grant money have triggered two overlapping procurement waves that Vermont's small contractor market may not be able to absorb.

A bid listing attributed to Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a Superfund cleanup site 60 miles away, is seeking contractors for wildfire rebuilding in a mountain community with no clear explanation.

The pilot program offers a chemical-free way to clear invasive plants and reduce the grassland fuel loads that fed the 2021 Marshall Fire.

A decade after a narrower government-operations plan, the county is pursuing a community-wide strategy covering emissions, wildfire, and water amid growing threats to its ski-resort economy.