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Justices appeared open to narrowing the scope of federal environmental impact reviews during oral arguments on a bond-financed Utah railway to move crude oil.

The future of key policies and upcoming budget battle tactics are taking shape based on several leadership changes and announcements in recent days.

The MSRB is looking for industry input regarding proposed rules changes for Rules G-17, G-32 and G-47.

Most on the Street expect issuance to come in around $500 billion, but a few think volume will be much higher, primarily because of potential changes to the tax exemption. Most firms expect refunding volumes to also grow in 2025.

Municipal investors are more focused on the final new-issues coming down the pike and repositioning books as 2024 heads to a close. ICI reported another week of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds.

Washington D.C. is lobbying Congress for an extra $47 million in expenses for the upcoming inauguration of President Trump while also raising concerns about the effects of debt ceiling squabbles on the city's credit rating.

California's high-speed train has become one of the nation's most politicized infrastructure projects.

Political change in Washington and the looming budget battle is raising anxiety in state legislatures.

The legislation sends unobligated dollars from the TIFIA program to the popular Surface Transportation Block Grant.

Experts are already predicting where the spending cuts will happen including the status of the tax exemption for municipal bonds.