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White House Holds Summit to Discuss Disaster Financing and Resilient Recovery

August 03, 2016By. Whitford Remer

On Wednesday the White House hosted a Forum on Smart Finance for Disaster Resilience to “highlight innovations in disaster mitigation and resilience finance, including emerging public-private collaborations with banking, insurance, and financial services sectors.” According to NOAA the U.S. has sustained 196 weather and climate disasters since 1980 where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1......

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Tags: energy, natural disasters, ports, resilience

Talk to your Members of Congress About Infrastructure this Recess

July 21, 2016By. Becky Moylan

Members of Congress headed home (and to their respective national conventions last week) and won’t return to Washington until after Labor Day. This gives you, as an infrastructure advocate, the opportunity to talk with your federal lawmakers about our nation’s “D+” infrastructure and specific legislation that they can pass this year to help improve it.......

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Tags: dams, inland waterways, levees, ports, Water Resources, WRDA

Florida’s Infrastructure Needs to Keep up with Growth

July 14, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Impact of Florida’s Infrastructure Infrastructure is the backbone of Florida’s economy and a necessary part of every Floridian’s day. The Florida Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers released the 2016 Report Card for Florida’s Infrastructure on Thursday, July 14. The report includes an evaluation of the state’s aviation, bridges, coastal areas, drinking water,......

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Tags: aviation, bridges, coastal areas, energy, Florida, infrastructure, ports, roads, schools, stormwater, transit, wastewater

Raising the Grade: How the 2016 Water Resources Development Act Can Improve America’s Ports and Inland Waterways

July 07, 2016By. Whitford Remer

In this second post of a three-part blog series, we’re looking at projects, policy changes and programs included in S. 2848, the Water Resources Development Act of 2016. Read about how WRDA can improve Dams and Levees. Now up, Ports and Inland Waterways Ports and Inland Waterways: Improving the Movement of Goods and Commerce ......

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Tags: inland waterways, ports, Water Resources, water resources development act

Momentum for Water Resources Bill Builds; 30 Republican Senators Urge Floor Time

June 30, 2016By. Whitford Remer

While gun control and a Puerto Rico debt restructuring package were the central focus of the Senate in the last 10 legislative days, momentum for bringing a major, bipartisan water resources bill to the Senate floor before summer recess is growing in the halls of Congress. Efforts to bring S.2848 the Water Resources Development Act......

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Tags: dams, inland waterways, levees, ports, water resources development act, WRDA

Broad Coalition Asks Senate to Pass Water Resources Bill

June 23, 2016By. Becky Moylan

On Wednesday an initial group of 87 organizations–now up to 93–asked in a letter that the U.S. Senate pass the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA; S.2848) before leaving for summer recess. The coalition, led by the American Society of Civil Engineers, includes a wide range of interests—demonstrating the impact that WRDA has on......

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Tags: dams, inland waterways, levees, ports, water resources development act

New Jersey Infrastructure Receives D+ Report Card

June 16, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Today, the 2016 Report Card for New Jersey’s Infrastructure gave an overall D+ grade for the State’s infrastructure. The report evaluated 13 separate components of New Jersey’s infrastructure, all of which were given a grade based on the components’ condition, capacity, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation.  The transit and......

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Tags: bridges, dams, energy, hazardous waste, infrastructure, NJ, parks, ports, rail, roads, transportation, wastewater, water

House Transportation Committee Passes Water Resources Bill

May 26, 2016By. Whitford Remer

The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee advanced a $5.5 billion Water Resource Development Act (WRDA) this week. A path forward for H.R. 5303 will require support from the full chamber, a commitment by House leadership to give the bill floor time, and ultimately a compromise with the much more expansive Senate bill that advanced out......

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Tags: congress, ports, WRDA

The High Cost of Underinvesting in Infrastructure: $9 a day

May 10, 2016By. Becky Moylan

Today’s release of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Failure to Act: Closing the Investment Gap for America’s Economic Future reveals that inadequate infrastructure is costing every American family $3,400 a year in disposable income. The economic study, an update to the initial series ASCE released prior to the 2013 Report Card, identifies the 10-year......

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Tags: Airports, Drinking Water, economics, economy, electricity, inland waterways, ports, surface transportation, wastewater

Closing America’s Infrastructure Gap

May 09, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Infrastructure is the backbone of our economy and when it’s not maintained all Americans feel the effects, but what does that look like in dollars for my family, my business and the overall economy? The American Society of Civil Engineers’ new economic study, Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap for......

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Tags: Airports, businesses, economy, electricity, income, jobs, ports, transportation, wastewater, water