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Groups Charge Alabama Officials with Discrimination in Wastewater Funds Allocation

Environmental organizations have filed a civil rights complaint against Alabama, accusing the state of discriminating against minority communities in how it distributes funding for wastewater infrastructure, including money for families who need help dealing with raw sewage in their yards. …

Engineers Grade U.S. Infrastructure C- as Biden, Congress Prepare to Debate Fix

America’s infrastructure has scored near-failing grades for its deteriorating roads, public transit and storm water systems due to years of inaction from the federal government, the American Society of Civil Engineers reports. Its overall grade: a mediocre C-. In its …

House Votes to Extend Transportation Funding, Railway Safety Deadline

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill to keep federal funds flowing to road and bridge construction projects into late November, while also extending a key rail safety deadline to the end of 2018. In a voice …

Texas Leads U.S. in Road Fatalities, Needs Transportation Funding

Gus Pando lost his mother last year in a crash at an intersection where a county road crossed four lanes of vehicles barreling by at 75 miles an hour. At the same Odessa, Texas, junction in August, a family friend …