FY 2026 Spending Bills: Lawmakers Advance Funding for Commerce, Energy, and Interior Agencies
January 08, 2026
Avoiding Another Shutdown: What’s at Stake Last fall, the federal government experienced a 43-day shutdown, the longest in history, because congressional lawmakers could not agree on terms for a full year spending deal. On January 5th, hoping to avoid another painful government shutdown, leaders of the Appropriations Committees in both chambers released the conferenced version......
2025 Drinking Water & Wastewater Webinar: Key Insights from ASCE
December 18, 2025
Exploring Infrastructure Grades, Challenges, and Solutions for U.S. Drinking Water & Wastewater Systems Overview of the Webinar On December 11, ASCE hosted an insightful webinar titled “Making the Grade: Drinking Water & Wastewater” to examine critical issues and solutions shaping U.S. water infrastructure. This discussion provided an overview of the 2025 Report Card for America’s......
West Virginia 2025 Infrastructure Report Card: ASCE Grades & Key Needs
December 17, 2025
On Wednesday, December 17, the West Virginia Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its 2025 Report Card for West Virginia’s Infrastructure at the state capitol building in Charleston, giving the state an overall grade of a ‘D+’, an improvement of the ‘D’ it received in their 2020 report card. Reliable, resilient......
Florida’s Infrastructure Report Card: A ‘C+’ and Climbing
December 10, 2025
The 2025 Report Card for Florida’s Infrastructure is out, and the Sunshine State earned a ‘C+’. Florida joins Georgia, Nevada, Utah, and Wisconsin as the fifth state to earn a ‘C+’, which is higher than the national infrastructure grade of ‘C’. This progress reflects years of hard work, strategic investment, and a commitment to resilience.......
Closing the Data Gap: How Digital Solutions Are Building Smarter Infrastructure
December 03, 2025
Infrastructure Data Matters On December 1, ASCE partnered with Autodesk and Mott MacDonald to discuss the important role digital data plays in today’s infrastructure landscape. Panelists explored how digital solutions—like AI, cloud collaboration, and connected data environments—are streamlining project information, improving decision-making, and enabling more resilient, future-ready infrastructure. The Challenge: Aging Systems and a $3.7......
California’s Infrastructure Report Card 2025: Challenges and Opportunities
December 03, 2025
On December 3, 2025, ASCE Region 9, which encompasses the state of California released the 2025 Report Card for California’s Infrastructure, giving the state an overall grade of C-, consistent with the grade it received in 2019. California is home to nearly 40 million residents, a global economy, and some of the nation’s most complex......
Election Day 2025 delivers major wins for U.S. infrastructure funding
November 13, 2025
Last Tuesday, voters across the United States cast their ballots in resounding support of transportation and infrastructure funding. This is part of a trend in 2025 where voters have approved 82 percent of more than 280 state and local infrastructure funding measures. These initiatives are expected to generate more than $24 billion in new and......
Airport infrastructure focus of ASCE Making the Grade webinar
November 13, 2025
On November 6, ASCE joined with airport leaders and experts to showcase the state of aviation infrastructure. As a part of the Making the Grade webinar series, presenters shared key perspectives on various criteria essential to airport facility performance including capacity, funding, and innovation. Aviation was one of 18 categories graded in the 2025 Report......
Louisiana’s Infrastructure: Making Progress, But Still a Long Road Ahead
November 12, 2025
If you’ve ever watched the news after a major storm hits the Gulf Coast, you know that Louisiana’s infrastructure faces significant external threats. These threats challenge and wear down an aging network of transportation and water systems. ASCE’s Louisiana Section gave us the latest snapshot: Louisiana’s infrastructure earned a ‘C-’ on its 2025 Report Card.......
2025 Maryland Infrastructure Report Card: Key Findings, Challenges & Future Solutions
October 23, 2025
Maryland’s Infrastructure Holds Steady at a ‘C’ in 2025 Report Card The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Maryland Section has released its 2025 Report Card for Maryland’s Infrastructure, assigning the state an overall grade of ‘C’, unchanged from 2020 and matching the national average. While this grade indicates that Maryland’s infrastructure is performing adequately......
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