If appropriators follow through, the measure is expected to allow increased spending on port dredging projects.

Senate Appropriations Committee also backs multi-project idea as a test program, recommends $525 million for it.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continues to sign off on new Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loans, one of its latest WIFIA approvals has a new twist.

Maryland is taking emergency measures to alleviate extensive congestion resulting from deck replacement work on the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, which carries U.S. Routes 50 and 301 across the Chesapeake Bay.