Projects selected by the U.S. Dept. of Energy would add nearly 1,000 miles of transmission development and 7,100 MW of capacity in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

Final upgrades at the Calexico West Land Port of Entry on the border with Mexico are set to begin next year.

As the five-year rollout of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passes its halfway mark, funds continue to flow to nonfederal agencies, including the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s late May announcement of two sets of grants, totaling $529.7 million, from IIJA-created programs.

As federal appropriations season begins in earnest, the latest EPA Clean Watershed Survey shows an enormous need for funding—more than $630 billion. 

EPA announces first of three distributions of IIJA funding for lead service line replacements. 

The Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program is funded by $2 billion from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The Federal Highway Administration is accepting applications for grants to support bridge projects valued at $100 million or less.

Communities across the nation vied for second round of grants to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy will invest more than $231 million to accelerate carbon management at large-scale U.S. geologic storage areas and support new grid resilience and energy storage projects and research for nine states and three Tribes.

Officials attribute the rise in manufacturing construction spending to the CHIPS and Science Act and other legislation that has incentivized private investment.