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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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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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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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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Data as a solution to potholes
While it may not be the main reason that roads across the country are in disrepair, lack of information is one starting point to find [...]
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Down to Earth: Ohio’s Geothermal Energy Innovation
Miami University, a public research university located in the small city of Oxford, OH, has been making unprecedented progress in the field of geothermal energy. […]
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A perfect storm for wholesale electricity prices
Summer temperatures and tensions were high across the state of Texas, at least for some. While every resident of the Lone Star State dealt with immense [...]
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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Beginning in October 2004, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month has continually drawn attention to the issue of cybersecurity and the resources available to ensure Internet safety […]
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Weathering Climate Change Through Resilient Infrastructure
Hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters can be truly devastating. Not only are precious lives lost, but property damage can decimate local communities and business […]
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Why We Can’t Leave Fossil Fuels In The Ground
Environmentalists and activists on the further reaches of the green movement occasionally go as far as to say ‘leave all fossil fuels in the ground.’ […]
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Congress Considering Action To Protect Public Transit From Chinese Interference
As China celebrates 70 years of communist rule, the U.S. Congress is mulling over the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to reauthorize funding and programs […]
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Will FERC Consider Cumulative GHG Impacts of New Pipeline Projects? It’s Complicated
Will FERC Consider Cumulative GHG Impacts of New Pipeline Projects? It’s Complicated The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) made a little noticed determination over the […]
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What percent of America’s 126 million households does not have access to high speed Internet?
Aii Trivia Question 2 – 7/2/18 Of the approximately 126 million households in the U.S., how many DO NOT have access to high speed Internet? […]
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What Is Innovation?
What is Innovation? No one really seems to know. Few can agree on a comprehensive definition because it means different things in different contexts. But […]
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Atlanta Power Outage And The Need For More Resilient Infrastructure
While power is back on at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the question remains: what happened to make the busiest airport in the world lose power […]
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