Infrastructure

The Bond Buyer is seeking industry-wide input on environmental, social and governance factors in the public finance space.

California's drought makes the argument that the San Diego County Water Authority's choice to build a P3 coastside desalination plant was correct.

The absence of advance refunding and a direct-pay bond program in the bipartisan infrastructure package has lobbyists pushing for inclusion of those things in the reconciliation bill, a matter only weeks away.

Cooper Howard, director of fixed income strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research, talks with Chip Barnett about what municipal bond investors can expect in the second half of the year – low yields and strong fundamentals. He looks at continuing bond fund inflows, rising taxable issuance and compressed spreads. (14 minutes/Taped Aug. 3).

The pandemic has prompted rare bipartisan consensus the U.S. needs a job creation program focusing on the middle class and acknowledging rural communities while upgrading infrastructure.

ReThinkNYC, battling entrenched transit and real-estate interests in its call for a unified network, cites economic development gains and capital savings.

Several cities could eliminate or drastically reduce unfunded pension liabilities, Reason Foundation's Robert Poole found.

The MTA budgets 16 months for environmental review of the tolling project for Manhattan's central business district.

State officials who support the high-speed project are tracking discussions around the “social infrastructure” package for anything rail-related they can tap.

Issuers sold nearly $60 billion of debt as states, cities and agencies adjusted to the COVID-19 environment and other variables.

Adovactes are hopeful a provision cutting in half the required PAB-financing for low-income housing projects will be in the upcoming reconciliation package.

The House's powerful speaker will need to win the votes of moderates.

Nine mayors from across the country backed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s double-barreled strategy to move infrastructure legislation.

That's not a bad idea despite the crumbling condition of a key stretch of the highway, says NYU Rudin Center Director Mitchell Moss.

California's troubled high-speed rail project was not a priority in the bill the Senate passed Tuesday, amid $66 billion targeted for intercity rail.

The legislation passed the Senate by 69-30 setting the stage for House lawmakers to work on it and for Senate Democrats to weigh a social infrastructure agenda.

Treasury has already halted the sale of state and local securities, known as SLGS.

Rising sea levels could make catastrophic events such as recent subway flooding more intense and frequent in places including New York and Boston.

Michigan is bringing $855 million of state trunk line fund bonds to market Tuesday for road and bridge projects.

That expansion wholly depends on Washington actually bringing back the taxable product and making it permanent, a diminishing scenario in 2021.