Federal funding

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Thu June 23, 2022

SW Pennsylvania Transit Plan Allocates $1.5B for Bridge, Infrastructure Upgrades

Roads and bridges in southwestern Pennsylvania will see a $300 million boost in funding because of 2021's federal infrastructure funding law, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported June 16. The extra money is included in a regional plan for $1.5 billion in transportation projects that is set to be approved June 27 by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC)....

Maryland Transportation Authority & Maryland Matters - Tue March 29, 2022

Maryland-Virginia Nice/Middleton Bridge Replacement Gets $200M Federal Loan

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on March 15 approved a $200 million federal loan to finance part of the $636 million replacement of the Nice/Middleton Bridge, an 81-year-old span across the Potomac River between Newburg, in Charles County, Md., and King George County in Virginia....

Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu March 24, 2022

Omnibus Appropriations Act Covers Transportation Under Funding Umbrella

Signing the $1.5 trillion 2022 omnibus spending bill into law in mid-March, President Joe Biden released the full benefits of last fall's bipartisan infrastructure and jobs act. Not only does highway work move forward with the spending bill's signing, but energy, maritime, transit, water and airport construction projects launch as well....

American Shipper - Tue March 22, 2022

Feds Award Alabama's Port of Mobile $300M for Infrastructure Upgrades

Due to more than $300 million in federal funding, the Alabama State Port Authority is set to improve infrastructure and intermodal access at the state's only deep-water shipping facility. The Port of Mobile will receive $265 million from the 2022 FY $1.5 trillion federal spending bill, which the U.S....

Cape Cod Times - Mon March 21, 2022

Aging Cape Cod Canal Bridges Need Construction Funding Within a Few Years

For months now, Massachusetts U.S. Rep. William Keating and U.S. Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren have touted their role in raising federal funds to replace the aging Sagamore and Bourne bridges on Cape Cod....

Axios Atlanta - Wed February 09, 2022

Atlanta Hopes to Heal Communities Torn Apart by Interstate 75/85

Georgia neighborhoods like Sweet Auburn, Summerhill and others across Atlanta that were split apart decades ago during the construction of the country's interstate highway system could try to repair the damage under a program in the federal $1.2 trillion infrastructure package....

Miami Herald - Wed February 09, 2022

Florida to Receive Another $404M to Prep for Climate Change

Florida is getting a $404 million dollar boost to its plans to protect itself against the rising sea, although the money is just a fraction of the expenses the state will need in the effort. On Feb. 1, Gov....

CEG - Wed February 02, 2022

Pittsburgh District of USACE to Get $881.9M in Supplemental Funding

A total of 25 projects within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Pittsburgh District will be supported by just over $881.9 million in funding through President Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)....

City & State Pennsylvania - Tue January 18, 2022

USDOT Secretary Buttigieg Promotes $1.6B From Fed Bill to Fix Pa.'s Bridges

Standing in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Drive Bridge in Philadelphia on Jan. 14, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg highlighted the bridge funding that the city and commonwealth will receive as part of the federal infrastructure bill....

SDOT - Mon January 10, 2022

USDOT Allocates $20M for East Marginal Way Construction

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced nearly $1 billion in federal grant awards for America's infrastructure, through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grants program....