The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: Keeping America moving

President Biden’s signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a significant turning point in American history. The $1 trillion bipartisan legislation infuses $550 billion in new spending over 10 years to accelerate modernization of our country’s physical infrastructure and keep our economy moving—quite literally. Roads, bridges, and ports that enable the transportation of manufactured goods, as well as the power grid that keeps the lights on, will get a much needed upgrade. While much of the focus has been on fixing the nation’s crumbing roads and bridges, we can’t overlook the need for reliable energy infrastructure, critical to both America’s competitiveness in the global economy and its ability to protect its citizens. With massive wildfires darkening the skies of the West this summer and the bruising ice storms in Texas last winter, it has never been more apparent that America needs to accelerate investment in modernizing aging energy infrastructure and improving grid resiliency.