Infrastructure News Updates

Transportation groups are coalescing around familiar priorities: safety, stable highway funding and efficient integration of emerging technologies.

Congress has begun assembling fiscal 2027 funding bills as lawmakers wait for the White House’s budget request and continue to negotiate an end to the DHS shutdown.

Deputy Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury outlined DOT's highway policy and funding goals as work begins on the next surface transportation bill.

Sens. Steve Daines (R‑Mont.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D‑Nev.) said Congress’ upcoming work on a multiyear highway policy measure presents a chance to advance permitting reforms.

Oil drillers in California have resorted to the costly alternative of trucking crude barrels 50 miles after the closure of a refinery and idling of a key pipeline cut off outlets for their products.

Streamlining the permitting process for infrastructure projects is among Republicans’ top priorities as Congress prepares to consider comprehensive waterways legislation this year.

The chairman of the influential House transportation panel told state officials this year’s must-pass highway bill is on track for consideration as early as March.

The House will resume work on the next Water Resources Development Act on Feb. 24, pushing ahead on the key infrastructure bill while Congress races to resolve a partial shutdown.

New York is offering $300 million for port improvements in a signal of support for an offshore wind industry that’s been battered by the Trump administration. 

Republicans’ plan to fast-track federal approvals of power plants, pipelines and other energy and infrastructure projects passed the House on Dec. 18, sending the measure to the Senate.