能源，矿产和自然资源部门（EMNRD）Cabet秘书莎拉科特尔议员加入了8月18日的圆桌会议，由Congresswomen Melanie Stansbury，美国秘书长詹妮弗·格兰霍尔姆和商业和联盟领导人。该活动强调了新墨西哥州扩大可再生能源发电和传输的快速进展，并探讨了联邦方案，法规和支持如何促进额外的传输线建设。这将创造当地的工作，减少排放，并帮助满足能源转型行为中所规定的能源里程碑。

Pictured, from left: Fernando Martinez, executive director, Renewable Energy Transmission Authority; U.S. Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury; Mike Garland, CEO, Pattern Energy; U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich; U.S. Dept. of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm; Bob Busch, chair of the Renewable Energy Transmission Authority; Brian Condit, business manager, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 611; EMNRD Cabinet Secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst; and Sarah Webster, vice president, Pattern Energy.

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Photo courtesy of Kitchell Corp.

Phoenix Children’s Hospitalbroke ground June 30 on a $39.9-million emergency department and expanded medical campus in Avondale, Ariz. The new campus will serve families in the West Valley and includes a 35,000-sq-ft freestanding emergency department. The Southwest Campus also will feature a multi-specialty clinic expected to serve 40,000 children a year. The clinic will more than double the number of patient rooms to 68 from 27. The facility will offer access to physicians in more than 75 pediatric subspecialties. There are more than 30,000 pediatric emergency visits each year in the Avondale area, and demand for children’s specialty care is also on the rise, with the pediatric population in the West Valley projected to grow from 400,000 today to nearly 500,000 by 2030. The Southwest Campus is expected to open by spring 2023. HKS is the designer, and Kitchell Corp. is the builder.