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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The Biden Administration has announced a $2.7 billion funding to strengthen the ports and waterways supply chains in the United States.With Tuesday's announcement, the Biden
The Pittsburgh Engineer District will begin the first of two major lock closures this week that are expected to cause major delays on the Upper Ohio River.
UTICA, ILLINOIS - It's a routine sight on the Illinois River: towboats slowly pushing barges carrying everything from salt and
View Comments U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon to take a close look at some bridges and tout the infrastructure benefits in President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan. During a press conference on Mt. Washington overlooking the city, Buttigieg called for a “generational investment” through the $2.6 trillion American Jobs Plan to fix the nation’s infrastructure, much of it aging like the bridges, and locks and dams along Pittsburgh’s famous three rivers, the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio. Buttigieg noted Pittsburgh’s...
Jared Murphy / 90.5 WESA Although President Joe Biden’s actions on climate change have stirred anxieties about job loss in energy-producing states like Pennsylvania, a new report predicts that plans like Biden’s could create roughly a quarter-million jobs annually in the Commonwealth. And within hours after the report's release, local officials announced a small but symbolic down payment on green energy investment. The 243,000 clean-energy jobs that could be created each year over the next decade in Pennsylvania "are jobs across the board,” said Robert Pollin, a professor at the Un...