[Source: CNN] President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law Monday, finalizing a key part of his economic agenda. It will deliver $550 billion of new federal investments in America’s infrastructure over five years, touching everything from bridges and roads to the nation’s broadband, water and energy systems. Experts say the money Read More…
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Blackouts loom in California as electricity prices are ‘absolutely exploding’
[Source: Real Clear Energy / Robert Bryce] Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill (California’s Energy Policies Hurt Minority Citizens the Most | RealClearEnergy) for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers. Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, Read More…
America’s infrastructure is failing: What needs fixing first?
[Source: The Hill] Tens of thousands of homes were without power last week as a weather system packing powerful winds and arctic temperatures roared across Massachusetts, downing power lines. It was nowhere near the catastrophic situation that Texans endured in which people lost heat, electricity and clean water for weeks last month. And don’t forget Read More…
Why the Texas power grid is struggling to cope with the extreme cold
[Source: VOX] Winter Storm Uri chilled large areas of the western, central, and southern US over the weekend, straining the power grid in some places so badly that millions of Americans have had to go without power in temperatures below freezing. The National Weather Service on Monday reported that 150 million Americans were under various winter Read More…
California’s Brown pegs bullet train future to Democratic wave
[Source: Bloomberg] California’s $77 billion high-speed rail project, which has been dogged by cost overruns and delays, could receive much-needed federal funding if Democrats take control of Congress in November, Governor Jerry Brown said Wednesday. “When the Congress shifts” and lawmakers draft an infrastructure bill, Brown said he is optimistic they will provide $6 billion Read More…
Trump signs order rolling back environmental rules on infrastructure
[Source: The New York Times] President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had signed a sweeping executive order to eliminate and streamline some permitting regulations and to speed construction of roads, bridges and pipelines, declaring that the moves would fix a “badly broken” infrastructure system in America and bring manufacturing jobs back to the country. Read More…