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New Georgetown University research analyzed how surface transportation projects chosen for $599 billion of the total $1-trillion bill could cut greenhouse gas emissions, or boost them significantly.

Kiewit is set to build expansion of Nebraska clean materials plant, the first non-nuclear power project since 2016 to gain yellow-light commitment under innovative federal clean energy loan program.

The $1-trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) signed into law Nov. 15 includes funding for “nature-based” infrastructure, a sign of the growing bipartisan support among lawmakers and federal officials for approaching flood control and other climate change-related projects by  working with natural systems, rather than trying to control them, according to current and former officials at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

Allapattah, a working class, majority Latino neighborhood in Miami, is bounded by convenience—a hospital, metro stations, an art museum, highways for easy access to downtown, the beach and other points of interest—which makes it a magnet for development, pushing prices up, and residents and businesses out.

Cincinnati’s West End is a mostly Black neighborhood where, compared to the rest of the city, the median income is lower and the percentage of residents who rent is higher. So when FC Cincinnati, the city’s professional soccer team, chose the neighborhood for its $250-million TQL Stadium, it raised both hopes and worries about what would happen to the area.

Standing on a dead-end street in Spartanburg, S.C., Harold Mitchell can plainly see the history of injustice in his community.

Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.

The bill includes some exceptions for non-residential uses.

Developer plans to establish a $100-million plant outside Bakersfield for its first-of-its-kind project, working with Fluor Corp. and gasification systems maker SunGas Renewables Inc.