Democrats’ Infrastructure Bill Includes Investment in Energy and Parks
June 25, 2020
House Democrats’ infrastructure package, the Moving Forward Act, includes $70 billion for upgrading the nation’s energy infrastructure, promotes renewable energy, and invests in local parks and green stormwater management infrastructure. ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card gave our nation’s energy and public parks categories each a grade of “D+,” and it found the 10-year investment gap......
June 24, 2020
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) today released COVID-19’s Impacts on America’s Infrastructure, a status report on the COVID-19 pandemic’s detrimental effects on the nation’s critical, yet aging and underinvested airports, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, inland waterways, parks, ports, roads, schools, transit and wastewater infrastructure. The report provides a snapshot of these sectors,......
Water, Ports, and Resilience Investment Included in Moving Forward Act
June 23, 2020
House Democrats’ infrastructure package, the Moving Forward Act, contains $40 billion for wastewater infrastructure and $25 billion for drinking water infrastructure. ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card gave our nation’s wastewater a grade of “D+,” and our nation’s drinking water a grade of “D,” and by 2025, the disparity between needed and anticipated funding for drinking......
Financing Tools and Highway Trust Fund Included in Moving Forward Act
June 22, 2020
After last week’s marathon markup of the INVEST in America Act, House Democrats on Monday unveiled the Moving Forward Act. This legislation takes a comprehensive approach to infrastructure investment and mirrors the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card to include surface transportation, aviation, water, schools, rail, energy, and public park infrastructure investment. In addition to providing policy......
June 19, 2020
The following is a statement by K.N. Gunalan “Guna,” Ph.D., P.E., President, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in response to the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee’s passage of 2020 surface transportation reauthorization, the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act: “We are encouraged......
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Passes Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill
June 19, 2020
With the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act set to expire on September 30, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marked up and passed the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act this week. The five-year reauthorization provides $494 billion in direct investments for our......
Senate Passes Historic Parks Infrastructure Legislation
June 17, 2020
Our nation’s parks infrastructure had a victory this week with Senate passage (73 – 25) of the Great American Outdoors Act, S. 3422. This win would not have been possible without the incredible advocacy of our Key Contacts, who sent 350 emails to 78 Senate offices! ASCE supports passage of this legislation as a critical......
Congress Holds Hearings on Effects of Pandemic on the Energy Industry
June 16, 2020
Congress held two hearings this week to examine the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the energy industry. Both the House Committee on Energy & Commerce and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard from former agency officials and industry experts about challenges and opportunities that face the energy industry during and the......
Congress Holds Hearings on Link Between Infrastructure and Economic Recovery
June 05, 2020
The U.S. Senate held two hearings this week that focused on the critical role that federal investment in infrastructure can play as the nation recovers from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee heard from local policymakers and industry stakeholders about the importance......
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Leaders Unveil the INVEST in America Act
June 04, 2020
With the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act set to expire on September 30, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), released text of the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act, a key component of the Moving Forward Framework that House Democrats,......