green infrastructure

White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Releases Recommendations

May 19, 2021By. Natalie Mamerow

Last week, the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council released final interim recommendations and guidelines for implementing President Biden’s environmental justice goals. The recommendations said initiatives such as renewable energy, clean water programs, and green housing could all quality as federal benefits for “vulnerable communities.” The council is made up of leaders in the environmental......

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Tags: Drinking Water, green infrastructure, lead and copper rule, transit, wastewater

Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Releases Water Resources Development Act of 2020 and Drinking Water Legislation

April 22, 2020By. Natalie Mamerow

This week, the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee has released a  draft of their bipartisan WRDA 2020 bill, entitled America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2020, which keeps Congress on track with the biennium WRDA reauthorization schedule. This bill authorizes $17 billion in infrastructure projects and reauthorizes the EPA’s Clean Water State Revolving Fund......

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Tags: Clean Water State Revolving Fund, Drinking Water, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, green infrastructure, inland waterways, innovation, resilience, stormwater, wastewater, WIFIA, WRDA

Urban Parks Infrastructure Gets Congressional Spotlight

February 28, 2020By. Natalie Mamerow

This week, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on H.R. 4512, the Outdoors for All Act, sponsored by Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA) and Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) and endorsed by ASCE. This bipartisan bill guarantees a source of funding up to $25 million to expand outdoor recreation opportunities in urban communities and......

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Tags: green infrastructure, public parks, stormwater

House Transportation Examines Climate Change and Infrastructure

February 27, 2019By. Joe Brady

On Tuesday, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure examined the role the transportation sector plays in climate change, which included the dual track approach of mitigation and resiliency. Committee Members heard from individuals in the public and private sectors on ways to reduce carbon emissions and building resilient infrastructure. At this hearing, “Examining......

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Tags: #infrastructurematters, #infrastructurenow, climate change, green infrastructure, infrastructure investment, investment, life cycle costs, resilience, transportation

Green Infrastructure Solutions in Urban Spaces

June 12, 2018By. Natalie Mamerow

This week, the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science of America, and Soil Science Society of America hosted a Capitol Hill briefing entitled “Urban Soil and Water: Geoscience that Underlies our Economic Prosperity” that explored the important role that soil – buried beneath our urban concrete jungles – plays in reducing stormwater runoff and in......

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Tags: green infrastructure, stormwater

Proposed Water Legislation Aims to Address Funding Needs

February 05, 2018By. Natalie Mamerow

As advocates of alternative water resources financing mechanisms and innovative, resilient infrastructure, ASCE is happy to support two recent pieces of legislation that provide creative solutions to our nation’s aging drinking water and wastewater infrastructure systems.  Last week, U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Diane Feinstein (D-CA) introduced S. 2364,......

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Tags: alternative financing, Drinking Water, green infrastructure, innovation, stormwater, wastewater