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  1. Fiber operators and investors have different worries amid consolidation

    Disconnects between fiber operators and fiber investors abound when it comes to industry challenges, according to the consultants…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #access #Affordability #BEAD #broadband #digitaldivide #digitalequity #Headlines #IIJA #service #Technology
    newsbeep.com/us/193545/

  2. Fiber operators and investors have different worries amid consolidation

    Disconnects between fiber operators and fiber investors abound when it comes to industry challenges, according to the consultants…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Internet #access #Affordability #BEAD #broadband #digitaldivide #digitalequity #Headlines #IIJA #service #Technology
    newsbeep.com/us/193545/

  3. Fiber operators and investors have different worries amid consolidation

    Disconnects between fiber operators and fiber investors abound when it comes to industry challenges, according to the consultants…
    #NewsBeep #News #Internet #access #Affordability #AU #Australia #Bead #Broadband #DigitalDivide #digitalequity #Headlines #IIJA #Service #Technology
    newsbeep.com/au/180803/

  4. Fiber operators and investors have different worries amid consolidation

    Disconnects between fiber operators and fiber investors abound when it comes to industry challenges, according to the consultants…
    #NewsBeep #News #Internet #access #Affordability #Bead #broadband #CA #Canada #DigitalDivide #digitalequity #Headlines #IIJA #Service #Technology
    newsbeep.com/ca/180792/

  5. City of Superior brings a broadband success story to northern Wisconsin

    After five years of planning, the city of Superior (WI) launched a new city-owned fiber optic network called…
    #NewsBeep #News #Internet #access #Affordability #BEAD #Broadband #DigitalDivide #digitalequity #Headlines #IIJA #Service #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/171061/

  6. US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’

    New analysis finds money from Biden’s $1.2tn infrastructure bill has overwhelmingly been spent on widening highways for cars

    theguardian.com/business/2024/

    #climatechange #climatejustice #publictransportation #greenwash #IIJA

  7. “Since its passage, the #IIJA has announced $400 billion in funding for more than 40,000 projects across the country, including nearly 8,000 bridge projects, 25 passenger #rail projects, 190 airport terminal projects, 445 port and waterway projects, 1,200 drinking and wastewater projects, and over 60 projects dedicated to improving the resilience and reliability of the energy #grid.”

    Plus, Biden's #BIL and #IRA
    forbes.com/sites/joanmichelson

  8. Kentucky’s state government will be unable to compete for $4.6 billion from the federal government to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gasses because it is one of only four states that did not apply for up to $3 million to create a #climate action plan through a new grant program.

    #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTransition #Kentucky #IRA #InflationReductionAct #IIJA

    kentuckylantern.com/2023/04/20

  9. We released new research this week from Georgetown Climate Center and RMI highlighting that it's all up to states to determine whether we can reduce climate pollution from cars and trucks. The most important single step is to stop expanding highways! #InducedDemand

    #ClimatePolicy #urbanism #electrification #IIJA #Transportation georgetownclimate.org/blog/sta

  10. The #California DOT is launching its own Reconnecting Communities program ($149M), partly to provide local match for the federal proposals. Applicants must describe how they would use the funds with and without a federal award. buff.ly/3ilqTkd

    #IIJA #FederalFunding #Transportation #ReconnectingCommunities #FreewayFighters #Caltrans

  11. "...Commerce Department chose a path that could jeopardize the solar industry’s ability to hire more workers and construct the clean energy projects needed to meet our country’s climate goals."

    #EnergyMastodon #Solar #Tariff #China #IRA #IIJA

    canarymedia.com/articles/solar

  12. Pollinator-friendly practices is not something I think I have come across before. I am assuming it will have huge ecological effects given the wide geographical coverage of the surface transport network. From the #IIJA:

    23 USC § 403 Pollinator-friendly practices on roadsides and highway rights-of-way
    law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/23

  13. Enel to build as much as 6 GW US Cell Manufacturing Capacity by 2024.

    The company is looking at potential sites from the Great Lakes to Texas, giving priority to locations where it can move fast to set up operations. Enel hopes to make a decision on where to build by the end of the year and start manufacturing panels and cells by the end of 2024.

    #EnergyMastodon #EnergyTwitter #Solar #IRA #IIJA

    wsj.com/articles/enel-to-build