The grants are funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Bridge Investment Program and will go to projects in 16 states.

Grants go to 80 road, bridge, transit and other projects to improve their ability to withstand floods, rising seas and other harmful effects of climate change in 37 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

Among the awards are grants to aid 52 capital construction projects.

Baltimore's 150-year-old rail tunnel gets the largest grant, $4.7 billion, to alleviate a major rail line bottleneck.

If spending levels contained in House Republicans’ fiscal 2024 transportation appropriations bill become law, the port grant program could face cuts of more than 60%.

The largest of the grants, at $56 million, goes toward a project set to cap a section of highway running through Buffalo, N.Y.

The grants went to projects in 12 states. U.S. DOT says it received applications totaling more than $10 billion, far more than the approximately $300 million it had available.

First Asian-American to lead DOT was put in internment camp during World War II.

Final U.S. Transportation Dept. regulation aims to cut risks in lines that carry natural gas, carbon dioxide and other hazardous liquids.

Winning projects are in coastal, Great Lakes and inland river locations.