infrastructure investment Archives

infrastructure investment

Climate Adaptation Moves Toward Center Stage

There’s an increasing bipartisan move to fund climate resilience.

The big news today is the deal with Manchin to provide billions of dollars of funding for clean energy. Manchin’s vote will be needed because no Republican Senator will vote for the bill. In contrast, funding for climate resilience has drawing power even for Republicans. It seems to be true that, in Bob Dylan’s words …

Continue reading “Climate Adaptation Moves Toward Center Stage”

Let’s Get America Moving Again

Make infrastructure a top priority for the new Congress

There’s actually one policy that Clinton and Trump agree on: the need for a massive investment in infrastructure. However the election comes out, that should be a top legislative priority, combining economic, safety, and environmental benefits – and political benefits for the next President because of its popularity. It would help get the country moving …

Continue reading “Let’s Get America Moving Again”

My 2011 Hamilton Project Paper on U.S Transport Infrastructure Investment

The blogosphere appears to have taken an interest in my 2011 Brookings Institution Hamilton Project paper (joint with David Levinson) focused on improving the rate of return on U.S investment in transportation infrastructure. Here is the Executive Summary: “The roads and bridges that make up our nation’s highway infrastructure are in disrepair as a result …

Continue reading “My 2011 Hamilton Project Paper on U.S Transport Infrastructure Investment”

infrastructure investment

There’s an increasing bipartisan move to fund climate resilience.

Make infrastructure a top priority for the new Congress

TRENDING

A carbon tax doesn’t seem to be in the cards. Maybe a clean-up tax would fare better.

CLEE report proposes banking and exchange strategies for CEQA mitigation

How would the Manchin-Schumer deal on permitting impact the environment?

The new law is a Big Deal. Or more precisely, a REALLY Big Deal.

A short video explainer of why passage of the IRA bill is such a big deal.

Why subsidies for clean energy generally are preconditions for other climate policies

There’s an embarrassing economic blunder in how OIRA’s jurisdiction is defined.

In climate policy, delay is deadly.

New book highlights the weaknesses of carbon pricing in addressing climate policy

Senate passes biggest climate legislation ever.

Would it be legal to declare a national emergency for climate change? Would it be useful? Here’s what you need to know.

CLEE report proposes banking and exchange strategies for CEQA mitigation

No, the Court didn’t eliminate EPA’s ability to fight climate change.

Provision in big climate bill that mandates oil and gas leasing on federal lands has limited reach

There are strong programs in schools up and down the pecking order.

Senate passes biggest climate legislation ever.

New book highlights the weaknesses of carbon pricing in addressing climate policy

In climate policy, delay is deadly.

Why subsidies for clean energy generally are preconditions for other climate policies

A short video explainer of why passage of the IRA bill is such a big deal.