Sentences with phrase «u.s. public infrastructure»

President Donald Trump told lawmakers he would support a 25 - cent increase in the federal gasoline tax to pay for his plan to upgrade U.S. public infrastructure, a congressional aide said.

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«As a nation, we have been under - investing in infrastructure for the last two decades,» Mills said, adding that investment in the public sector has dropped to 3.6 percent of U.S. output, compared to 5 percent after World War II.

Indeed, President Trump has indicated deregulation efforts will not apply to areas compelled by public safety and has ordered a review of all U.S. cyber defenses and vulnerabilities, including critical infrastructure.

Proposal: Spur infrastructure investment in the U.S. by developing Special Purpose Vehicles for public - private partnerships, and aggregating debt into marketable, securitized products.

As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was focused, not on consumption, but on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training, education, and so forth).

One of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of the U.S. is well under way, the new Tappan Zee Bridge, and the public still has no idea how all of the building expenses will be met.

Dueling infrastructure proposals from Trump's team and U.S. Senate Democrats went public yesterday that could bring billions in federal money to New York projects like the Second Avenue subway and new Hudson River tunnels.

The 4.8 km - long bridge linking Westchester County to the New York State Thruway across the widest point in the Hudson is one of the largest public infrastructure projects underway in the U.S. and a model of the latest engineering.

Miner testified about the city's deteriorating infrastructure before the U.S. Environmental and Public Works Committee and has unsuccessfully asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.

Among the reasons public transportation has not taken off in the U.S. as it has elsewhere are Americans» love affair with cars and a well - developed highway infrastructure

From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill - prepared U.S. public health infrastructure

The researchers from a consortium of U.S. universities, with collaborators from industry and the public sector, are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table, the largest outdoor shake table in the world.The facility is part of NHERI@UCSD, an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program.

Given aging U.S. infrastructure, limited public resources and the challenges created by a changing climate, the need to understand the most cost - efficient approach to the design, construction and maintenance of structures is more important than ever.

As a teacher educator and former classroom teacher, I have become increasingly concerned about the tenuous situation of the most vulnerable students in U.S. public schools — students who attend urban schools with crumbling infrastructures, few resources, and a highly mobile staff.

«Even though K — 12 schools are the largest public building sector in the U.S. and represent the second largest category of public infrastructure investment, there is no current dataset at a national level, and many states could not report on the size of their public school inventory,» said Mary Filardo, author of the report and executive director, 21st Century School Fund.

U.S. public school infrastructure is funded through a system that is inequitably affecting our nation's students, and this has to change.»

Public private partnerships are relatively new in the U.S., but they hold great potential to help rebuild and revitalize our aging infrastructure.

The DOT EJ Order directs the Department to consider EJ objectives when administering the requirements of NEPA; Title VI and related statutes; the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended; planning statutes in Title 23, U.S. Code and Title 49, U.S. Code; and other statutes, regulations, and Executive Orders that address or affect transportation infrastructure planning and decision - making; social, economic or environmental matters; public health; or public involvement.

Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Garrett takes on public health: the desperate inadequacy of public - health infrastructure in much of the developing world and the shocking neglect of that infrastructure in «developed» nations, from the relatively simple inadequacies revealed by the 1994 Ebola epidemic in Zaire to a nuanced analysis of the issues involved in the near - total collapse of public health in the former USSR and the years - long underfunding and lack of respect for this key government responsibility in the U.S.

A deteriorating public infrastructure system threatens the ongoing competitiveness and future economic growth of the U.S.. However, the recognition across both sides of the aisle of the need for bold action provides grounds for optimism.

In their first solo show in the U.S., the duo draws upon their interest in Mexico City's architectural history, bringing communities together through architectural interventions, and repurposing existing infrastructure for public benefit.

And it means adopting a new era of innovation policies to ensure the U.S. economy is the most competitive in the world, directing targeted public investments into strategic technologies, infrastructure, and high - tech education programs.

Maryland endeavors to become «a national leader in the burgeoning [U.S.] offshore wind industry,» by developing a robust supply chain employing small and minority - owned businesses, and by revitalizing and re-purposing existing port infrastructure (Maryland Public Service Commission 2017).

By 2030, permafrost degradation is expected to raise the costs of maintaining public infrastructure by U.S. $ 3.6 billion to $ 6.1 billion, and by another $ 5.6 billion to $ 7.6 billion by 2080.2,9 Those figures do not include damage to private infrastructure, such as houses, which analysts have yet to calculate.9

This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. (even more globally) took to the streets, local parks, bike trails, public monuments, and more to call for the U.S. and others to move beyond fossil fuels.The global fossil fuel infrastructure is a threat to our future everywhere, and a common target for our movement.

«Maybe we want to start thinking of trees as part of our public health infrastructure,» says one U.S. Forest Service researcher.

The U.S. has allowed transportation and other infrastructure to grow obsolete and deteriorate, which poses a threat not just to public safety but also to the nation's economic health.

The primary impediment for radically improvements in U.S. patterns of consumption is the ignorance of the American public, and a ineptly designed infrastructure that makes it more difficult than necessary to change.

His career began in sales with IBM, matriculated to Pepsi Cola where he headed its world - wide infrastructure, consulting and network applications and, from 1996 — 2015, bourgeoned through senior executive roles with Cisco that included Global Director of Financial Services, Vice President of New York Metro Area, Vice President of Americas Vertical Sales, Senior Vice President of U.S. Federal Organizations and Senior Vice President of U.S. Public Sectors.

It can now self - supply its massive demand for cloud services, while the U.S. based public and private cloud provider will operate as a standalone company, continuing to offer cloud infrastructure and software ser...

In this analysis, entitled «Sowing the Seeds of U.S. Cyber Talent: Leveraging K - 12 Cyber-Education to Develop the Cyber-Workforce and Improve National Security,» the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides a comprehensive assessment of how public and private sector organizations can engage K - 12 students and inspire developing minds to pursue Information Security through interactive models and engaging mediums.

«The U.S. government's ability to procure technology to protect public sector institutions and private sector infrastructure is hampered because there's no ability to execute on its procurement processes,» she told TechNewsWorld.

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And with the recent announcement by the Public Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund out of Saudi Arabia, of committing $ 20 billion to Blackstone's infrastructure vehicle, there will eventually likely be a bigger investment in U.S. commercial real estate coming from Saudi Arabia in particular, Brett adds.