U.S. Ports to share $653 million in funding to improve throughput and Reduce emissions
November 8, 2023
The Biden administration announced Friday that it is investing more than $653 million to fund 41 port improvement projects across the nation under the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP).
House T&I hearing focuses on implementation and oversight of IIJA
April 6, 2023
A recently-held House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee hearing focused on implementation and oversight of the bipartisan $1.2 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, with a sharp focus on “ensuring it is implemented as Congress intended.”
Accountability first, then infrastructure spending follows, White House says
May 16, 2022
The first task was passing President Joe Biden’s massive $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, his signature accomplishment of his first two years in office. Now comes an equally arduous challenge: making sure that money is spent as it was intended without the waste and inefficiency that sometimes marks spending by the federal government.
USDOT rolls out $2.9 billion in available funding for infrastructure grants
March 24, 2022
Taking steps to put the recently-passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law into action, the White House and the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) said this week that $2.9 billion in funding is now available through a combined NOFO (notice of funding opportunity). DOT said that this NOFO meshes three discretionary grant programs into a single Multimodal Projects Discretionary Grant and reducing the burden for state and local applicants while also increasing the pipeline of what it calls “shovel-worthy” projects.
