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On May 7, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Salud Carbajal (D-CA) introduced legislation to help ensure U.S. ports are resilient to extreme weather events, including sea-level rise and flooding. The bill also increases the percentage of funding set aside for inland ports to assist ports with infrastructure projects.
Specifically, this bill:
Creates a funding eligibility within the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) for port infrastructure projects that reduce the overall carbon footprint from port operations;
How Infrastructure Reform Can Prioritize Ocean Climate Action
April 26, 2021, 9:01 am Getty/Mario Tama
A woman rides on a tour boat as a container ship is offloaded at the Port of Los Angeles in Terminal Island, California, March 2020.
Sam Hananel
Ari Drennen
Introduction and summary
Now is the time to invest in the United States’ coastal communities and ocean. Historically, the ocean has been central to the U.S. conception of infrastructure; early cities were built in naturally sheltered bays or on the banks of tidal rivers to provide safe harbors for ships.
1 Today, ocean-based climate solutions have the potential to provide up to one-fifth of the reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions needed globally to limit the world’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, which scientists say is necessary in order to lower the risks associated with climate change.
April 21, 2021 By Waterways Journal
By Lance M. Sannino, James Kearns and Amiee Andres
The “Report Card” recently issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers has added to the renewed attention directed to the state of America’s infrastructure. Although the nation’s ports were given a grade of B-minus, better than the grade of C-minus given to the country’s infrastructure overall, the report card noted, “Smaller and inland ports are especially challenged to maintain their infrastructure and have difficulty in competing for federal grants.”
Aimee Andres
A small but significant step was made to address this challenge when, in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, Congress amended, in several ways, the Port Infrastructure Development Program that is administered by the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd). Prior to this amendment, 25 percent of the amounts appropriated for grants under thi