As Congress grapples with how to deal with the immediate health and public safety impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic, including making tests kits available and […]
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Policy Blog
Our policy blog contains shorter news, overview, or analysis of issues giving the general public, policymakers, and industry leaders an update or review of a new issue or refresher of a longstanding one. They cover a number of public policy challenges, focusing on pro-innovation solutions that can be implemented in a nonpartisan way through law, regulation, or simply best practices. These include an issue background, explanation of the challenge, and proposed solutions or recommendations. Aii white papers are longer than policy briefs, but not more complicated. To ensure you are up to speed and ready for these reports, try reading our policy blogs and briefs. Want a deeper dive on a single topic? Visit our Issues pages for background, challenges, solutions, and all our analysis on the subject.
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Avoiding COVID-19 at Home? Here are 10 money and energy-saving tips
The Novel Coronavirus (nCoV) or COVID-19 is in the process of reshaping the order of things at home and abroad. As we all react to […]
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Aii Asks: Would you prefer a gas tax increase or miles traveled tax?
Aii Asks sometimes tests our audience's knowledge about a subject, like "What tax does the federal government add to every gallon of gasoline you pump?" [...]
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Your Home as a Power Plant
Residential solar systems are becoming an increasingly popular trend in the United States. By the end of 2018, the U.S. had installed enough solar panels […]
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New Report: The Revenue Failure of the Highway Trust Fund
The Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure (Aii) released a new report today highlighting the declining revenue into the Highway Trust Fund and the looming insolvency […]
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Looming Highway Trust Fund Insolvency
The Highway Trust Fund is the federal fund for road and bridge maintenance and repair. It once built the Interstate Highway System and helped keep [...]
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What is Fuel Dumping and Why Does it Happen?
You are enjoying your day, looking up at the shapes in the clouds when all of a sudden, a pilot far above you releases thousands […]
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It’s Time for Nationwide Adoption of Enhanced Positive Response
As technology improves, law and regulation must improve for the sake of public safety. Excavation damage has been a leading – and in many years [...]
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Has the Car of the Future Arrived?
Throughout the past century, the public has sought to predict what the ‘car of the future’ would entail. And, with the release of the VISION [...]
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Fires, Climate Change, and More
As the immense tragedy in Australia continues apace, helpless onlookers are grappling for emotionally and intellectually satisfying explanations. How could such a conflagration begin, grow, [...]
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Nord Stream 2 Nears Completion Despite U.S. Opposition Effort
Despite years of lobbying from the U.S. to stop the Russian natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, it is all but complete as we enter […]
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Congress Moves forward with NDAA, blocking Chinese metro and bus activity
Congress has moved forward with reauthorization of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with the House voting to include language known as the Transit Infrastructure […]
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How Green Are Electric Vehicles Really?
To many, the Tesla brand has become synonymous with sustainability, an unprecedented feat considering the automobile industry has often been deemed the antithesis of a […]
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Aii Asks: What tax does the federal government add to every gallon of gasoline you pump?
Question: The Interstate Highway System and other roads and bridges in America are supported by the Highway Trust Fund. The main revenue source is a [...]
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3 Unintended Consequences For Regulators to Consider
Everyone makes mistakes, but regulators have a higher responsibility to be careful and deliberate. Institutional speed bumps help keep the pace slow, reducing the speed […]
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