This week, local news outlets across the country continued to report on the many benefits of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including repairing and rebuilding the nation’s roads, bridges, and airports, replacing lead pipes and service lines, improving access to affordable, high-speed internet, strengthening resilience to climate change, creating good-paying, union jobs and so much more. From Utah to Indiana to North Carolina and everywhere in between, folks across the country are continuing to read about how President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is set to tackle our most urgent infrastructure needs:
In the Midwest:
- In Wisconsin: The Country Today: ‘Rural America is beginning to count again’: Feds earmark $114.5M for Wis. infrastructure
- In Indiana: Post Tribune: Local airports reap funding from fed infrastructure law
- In Illinois: Chicago Tribune: Op-ed: Clean energy will create Illinois’ next jobs boom. The US is following its lead
- In Iowa: Iowa Capital Dispatch: Infrastructure bill sends $675 million for Iowa roads, airports
- In Missouri: The Missouri Times: USDA invests $288M in rural Missouri infrastructure projects
In the Northeast:
- In Pennsylvania:WETM: Better internet access coming to Pennsylvania with the passage of landmark broadband bill
- In Pennsylvania: The Morning Call: Pennsylvania airports, including Lehigh Valley International, will get millions in funding from infrastructure deal
- In Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Airports, including those in Western Pennsylvania, first among transit hubs to get funds under bipartisan infrastructure law
- In West Virginia: Associated Press: West Virginia airport gets initial $2M in infrastructure law
- In New York: News 10: More than $130 million in federal funding for New York’s airports
- In New York: Brooklyn Eagle: Maloney Announces $428 Million Headed to New York to Strengthen Water Systems, Replace Lead Pipes and Service Lines
In the South:
- In North Carolina: Fox8: Power companies in Triad to improve electrical networks in rural areas thanks to federal funds
- In North Carolina: WLOS: $4.3 million headed to Asheville Regional Airport, thanks to infrastructure law
- In Texas: Houston Chronicle: How Biden’s infrastructure bill could shape Houston’s transportation projects
- In Texas: Fox7 Austin: Texas to receive $221M to replace lead pipes as part of Biden plan
- In Arkansas: Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Arkansas in line for $54 million to build electric-car charging stations
In the West:
- In New Mexico: Farmington Daily Times: FAA awards $18M in infrastructure grants to airports in New Mexico
- In New Mexico: Albuquerque Journal: NM poised to receive millions for roads
- In Utah: ABC4: Biden’s Infrastructure Bill will clean up tons of arsenic and lead-poisoned Utah soil
- In Utah: Salt Lake Tribune: Superfund site south of Tooele will finally be cleaned up
- In Oregon: St. Helens Chronicle: Airport Improvements: Scappoose Air Park to receive $159,000
- In Oregon: The Argus Observer: USDA invests $8.2 Million to build and improve critical infrastructure in rural Oregon
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