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Executive Summary - As we discussed in Part I of this series on the proposed Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025 (H.R. 4669) (FEMA Act), the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure...more
Executive Summary - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced H.R. 4669, the Fixing Emergency Management for Americans (FEMA) Act of 2025 ("FEMA Act") on July 22, 2025. The bipartisan bill, if passed,...more
The United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued an August 11 report titled: Water Infrastructure Resilience: Agencies Could Better Assess Efforts to Assist Communities Vulnerable to Natural Disasters...more
The debris removal process for the LA fires is currently underway. The process is split into two phases, each managed by a different government agency. Phase One is managed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency...more
Landslides and slope failures resulting from disasters cause millions of dollars in damage to infrastructure each year. Following a disaster, funding for repair and restoration of infrastructure, including roads and bridges,...more
National Climate Assessment + New Funding for Climate Resilience - The US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which provides authoritative information on the risks, impacts, and...more
Hurricane Ian struck Florida on September 28. By late afternoon, it was a Category 5 storm with top winds of 155 miles per hour, producing huge storm surges along a wide area of the state’s southwestern coast. Damage is...more
The grant program will be authorized and appropriated through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program will provide a “first-of-its-kind” investment to state, local and...more
The Senate is in session this week, and the House has a committee work period. The Senate plans to vote on nominee confirmations, on U.S. Postal Service reform legislation, and on the House-passed continuing resolution (CR)...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The Senate and House are both in session this week. The Senate is expected to hold a procedural vote to advance the For the People Act (S. 1) tomorrow, though it is...more
On October 13, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing the creation of a sub-group with the Environmental Protection Agency to address infrastructure issues for America's water systems. Other agencies...more
There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted business operations in virtually every business sector, and the water industry is no exception. We are mindful of how strenuous it is for our...more
...Federal, state and local governments spent $440 billion on transportation and water infrastructure in 2017, according to the Congressional Budget Office. In September 2018, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...more
On February 25, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) reintroduced legislation authorizing federal water infrastructure projects and creating a federal loan program modeled after the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and...more
The current International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) contract extension expires at the end of February 6. Carrier-paid container royalties remain the central issue in the negotiation. ...more
On November 27, President Obama signed S.1956, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011, into law. The law allows the Department of Transportation to exempt U.S. airlines from the carbon tax...more