Items Tagged with 'Pete Buttigieg'

The Biden administration is pushing to award grants and move funds to projects funded by signature infrastructure and climate measures before President-elect Donald Trump takes over.

DOT awarded 44 grants after receiving 200 applications.

FHWA formula highway funds viewed as critically important part of surface transportation program.

The grants are funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Bridge Investment Program and will go to projects in 16 states.

The new round of grants is much smaller than the one announced in 2023, which included a one-time infusion from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Grants are capped at $25 million, but transportation infrastructure projects aim to have significant regional or local impact.

U.S. DOT says projects funded by the grants will reduce the risk of methane leaks.

Key appropriator says Federal Highway Administration's emergency fund needs more funding.

Grants go to 80 road, bridge, transit and other projects to improve their ability to withstand floods, rising seas and other harmful effects of climate change in 37 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.

As bodies of two missing workers were recovered, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pledges a united effort to reopen the Port of Baltimore as soon as possible amid an NTSB full investigation.