Tag: Infrastructure Investment

March 3, 2023

Implementation of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act or IIJA, enacted in November 2021, remains a critical focal point for Congress, according to key transportation committee leaders within the Senate and House of Representatives. Speaking at the American […]

December 28, 2022

The spending budget for the federal government’s fiscal 2023 includes an increase in funding for the Department of Transportation that is higher than the level requested by the White House. The $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 — which […]

November 11, 2022

Short-line owner and operator Regional Rail has acquired freight rail assets in western Canada from grain company G3 Canada. The acquisition from Winnipeg, Manitoba-based G3 Canada, which operates a network of grain elevators and port terminals, includes the Great Sandhills […]

March 29, 2022

Alaska transportation officials are surveying the public for the second time as the state prepares to spend federal infrastructure investment funds in the largest transformational projects since World War II and the Trans-Atlantic Pipeline. Improving freight movements, especially to rural […]

March 2, 2022

President Joe Biden in his first State of the Union address stressed a long-term vision for the $1 trillion infrastructure bill he signed last year, and discussed domestic and international priorities his administration is targeting. “America used to have the […]

December 10, 2021

Oregon’s Congressional delegation recently sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Office of Management and Budget urging funding for the state’s port infrastructure as the Army Corps implements the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of […]

October 29, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is preparing a 2021 legislative agenda with two “great, big initiatives” — expanding health care access and rebuilding American infrastructure — that are longtime Democratic priorities aligned with Joe Biden’s platform and taking on fresh urgency […]

May 29, 2019

As the Connecticut General Assembly’s legislative session draws to a close, Gov. Ned Lamont released a working draft of an infrastructure funding proposal that lawmakers will rely on during a special session focused solely on transportation and economic development. The […]