Sentences with phrase «needed infrastructure dollars»

«Importing LIE traffic to Westchester will overwhelm our roads and communities, add billions of tons of carbon emissions into our air, and divert desperately needed infrastructure dollars from being spent where they are truly needed — on our existing roads, bridges, and rail systems.

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Trillions of dollars were needed for infrastructure, he said.

Canadian governments need to spend wisely in order to maximize their infrastructure dollars, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report.

«It provides them with an affordable, same - day delivery option for their local customers without the merchants needing to invest a single dollar in delivery infrastructure.»

Right now, there isn't the funding but if we were able to tie international tax reform, tax all that money that the companies have overseas and put that in an infrastructure bank, there could be a trillion dollars of infrastructure funding and you could get the kind of funding we need for high - speed rail,» he said.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today says two water main breaks in Rotterdam and a sewer break in Amsterdam underscore the continued urgent need for a new state program to repair and maintain vital local drinking water, sewer, storm water management and gas line infrastructure to protect lives, secure the viability of roads and bridges aboveground, and save tax dollars.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

According to the Balanced Budget Agreement of 1997, every dollar of increase for the Pentagon will mean a dollar less to address critical social and economic infrastructure needs.

This administration has proposed cuts to funding for human services, starved our infrastructure of the resources it needs and paid millions of dollars in fines for being unable to provide clean drinking water but can spend several million dollars taking care of the law firms that employ his campaign donors,» said Brian Hegt, spokesman for the BoL Democratic Caucus.

The state has tens of billions of dollars in sewer infrastructure needs.

Jain says the commission thinks that perhaps the awards, which after this year will approach a total of nearly $ 5 billion dollars, could be better spent on much needed infrastructure repairs, with more tangible results.

A coalition of Colorado business groups on Friday announced they will collect signatures to try and ask voters in November for a 0.62 percent sales tax increase to raise money for the state's billions of dollars in infrastructure needs.

We need every last dollar we can get from the federal government to revitalize our aging infrastructure.

This will direct millions of dollars a year of taxpayer money to much needed investment in infrastructure.

Westchester needs a leader who will protect hard - earned taxpayer dollars, prioritize critical infrastructure projects and help spur the local economy.

Meanwhile, the Republican candidate for governor, Rob Astorino, who is also the Westchester County executive, says the state should use part of a recently announced multi-billion dollar settlement with a French bank to help pay for the bridge, and other infrastructure needs.

Last July, LIPA announced that an increased focus on solar power would «help defer, reduce or eliminate the need to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on building new generation, infrastructure, and transmission and distribution lines.»

Nixon added that «it was good that jobs were created» in the broader Buffalo Billion program, but she questioned the way in which economic development dollars are dedicated by the Cuomo administration and said more state money needs to be spent on crumbling infrastructure needs.

«What's happening in West Seneca is unacceptable, but many of their costs stem from maintaining an aging and out of date infrastructure, and for that we need voices in Washington advocating a return on investment of our federal tax dollars.

You don't need a multi-billion dollar massive infrastructure,» Nocera says.

We seem ready to spend over a trillion dollars to replace our water infrastructure without a serious effort to design systems to address 21st century needs using innovative technologies.»

Smaller classes would also prompt a need for new classroom space in many schools and districts, with school administrators complaining they would need to spend millions in local dollars to boost school infrastructure or refit mobile classroom units.

Ignoring the billions (if not trillions) of dollars needed to create a station infrastructure, consider hydrogen production complexity and cost, a process that still relies entirely on fossil fuels.

The guiding principles are to: 1) use federal dollars as seed money to incentivize infrastructure investment; 2) provide for the needs of rural communities; 3) streamline permitting to speed up project delivery; and, 4) reduce unnecessary and overly burdensome regulations.

He commented on the significant infrastructure spending needs around the world and that «while there is no guarantee of investment success, the multi-trillion dollar need creates a strong tail wind.»

The request for cultural dollars is a point of contention for some commissioners who say their areas are in need of housing and infrastructure.

Also, the utility and oil companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)

we need MORE POINT OF USE solutions — efficiency, smart metering and renewable generation, and LESS Big Energy Monopoly solutions which kill off ecosystems, force us from our own land, divert our taxpayer and ratepayer dollars into building their infrastructure, then hijack us!

Oh, and while conventional power stations can be built right where the power is needed (in or near major cities), solar and wind farms have to be sited where demand is low or nonexistent, necessitating hundreds of billions of dollars in new transmission lines, transformers and other infrastructure, and the personnel to maintain them..

More thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the world's infrastructure threatened by climate change, an Australian leading ocean scientist said on Sunday

We need to rapidly adopt new thinking about what constitutes «infrastructure» and implement new policies so that green infrastructure investment can complement traditional grey infrastructure to derive the maximum taxpayer benefits from the billions of public dollars invested each year.

What we know from other jurisdictions is that putting a price on pollution spurs innovation, creates certainty and can provide billions of dollars for the development of needed alternatives — renewable energy, efficiency programs, electric - vehicle infrastructure and public transit.

We need to build this infrastructure that benefits American consumers, and so I'm hopeful, that on a bipartisan basis, we can gather around an approach to infrastructure and release those investment dollars that are anxious to be invested one they're confident there won't be arbitrary decisions made that would restrict our ability to build the infrastructure.»

Similar to cloud computing, which has enabled millions of startups around the world to leverage billion - dollar infrastructure for a fraction of the cost, the infrastructure BitFury is deploying allows entrepreneurs to tap into world - class banking infrastructure for a fraction of the cost — unlocking the creativity of entrepreneurs to build financial service applications that can serve the specific needs of the unbanked at a much lower cost than traditional banks.

Municipal water agencies need billions of dollars in repairs to their infrastructure.