Infrastructure
Building Green Infrastructure Requires More Efficient Permitting
NEPA’s outdated permitting process is doing more harm than good
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Issue: Transportation & Infrastructure
Transportation
Parallel Systems is Revolutionizing Freight Transportation
By shifting some of the nation’s existing freight to electric rail, Parallel’s next-generation connected fleet can help address a number of pressing issues in the country ranging from the current supply-labor crunch of professional truck drivers to rampant congestion in busy American highways and ports.
Infrastructure
Sponge Cities Address Impacts of Flooding
A much wider concept of Sponge Cities is now developing. Often referred to as Ecosystem-based Adaptation, it creates an absorbent urban environment within flood-prone areas, to allow surplus groundwater to drain away safely, or be collected for cleaning and reuse.
Infrastructure
Investments in Resilient Infrastructure Will Protect Against Extreme Weather
The immediate focus should be to help those communities in need. Policymakers must implement reforms today that will pave the way for tomorrow’s resilient infrastructure.
Infrastructure
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Accelerates Energy R&D, Conservation, and Regulatory Reform
The bill takes important steps forward on energy research, development and demonstration, environmental conservation and remediation and improving several regulatory processes.
Transportation
California-based Oberon Making Potential Breakthrough Fuel to Decarbonize Transportation
Oberon has only begun to produce the molecule on a large scale. Nonetheless, rDME shows promise as a multi-faceted molecule to curb carbon emissions in various ways.
Energy
Efforts to Plug Hydrogen into 21st Century Economy Involves Immense Challenges to Build Parallel National Infrastructure
As the investment community begins throwing money at hydrogen, look for some serious debate in the coming months and years over what – and whether – there is value in the hydrogen economy for American businesses and consumers.
Infrastructure
Regulatory Improvement is a Win for Infrastructure, the Environment
Rather than recklessly spend and borrow, policymakers should remove government-imposed barriers that would drive infrastructure investment, job growth and emissions reductions.
Infrastructure
House GOP Outlines an Infrastructure Agenda
As the process to pass an infrastructure package continues, House Republicans used committee hearings last week to explain their vision for infrastructure legislation. Members across the party outlined improvements to regulatory reform, water infrastructure, surface transportation, and broadband.
Environment
The National Flood Insurance Program: Drowning in Rising Sea Levels and Debt
While many people believe that the only way to mitigate the effects of climate change is to spend more money, this report shows that reforming ineffective government programs and unlocking the power of the private sector can be even more effective.