Highest natural-disaster risk level is needed for publicly regulated power facilities to operate quickly after destructive event, proponents say, but clean energy builders cite major cost and impact on project growth.
Dry weather in parts of the Midwest have contributed to unusually low river water levels, grounding some barges and requiring emergency dredging, with other waterways affected.
The American Institute of Steel Construction task group reviewed proposals made by California's Metropolitan Transportation Commission, in the aftermath of the 2018 discovery of brittle fractures in plate girders at the Salesforce Transit Center.
The heads of six state DOTs have signed on to the Equity in Infrastructure Project's pledge to increase the share of prime contracts that go to disadvantaged businesses.