FutureStructure Infrastructure
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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The DWP hopes to smooth relations in rural eastern Sierra Nevada communities that are up in arms over the $680-million project, which would generate fewer than 10 permanent jobs and no property-tax revenue.
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Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial.
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Yolo County has become the first county government in the state to not only zero-out its electric bill with renewable energy, but also to become grid positive.
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While such designs rarely make the leap from blueprint to reality, the do serve to inspire generations of architects and planners.
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When the owner of a small tech firm shared the discovery with utility security officials, the DHS advised power grid operators to upgrade their software.
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That's the year the U.S. will not have to import any more oil, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute highlights some of the progress that has resulted so far from the Better Buildings Initiative.
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The array of technologies and the staff time to make a home new zero is still out of reach for all but wealthy buyers.
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Swedish home goods giant Ikea Group is investing in its first wind farm in the U.S. that will produce enough energy to meet 18 percent of its electricity needs.
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15 billion barrels of recoverable oil is trapped in what's known as the Monterey Shale formation, which covers 1,750 square miles, roughly from Bakersfield to Fresno.
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The project will test the viability of harnessing the power of tides to harvest electricity.
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The Association of California Water Agencies issued a suite of far-reaching recommendations for improving management of groundwater basins throughout California.
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St. Louis Park, where new apartment and condo buildings sprout like weeds, may become home to a far more unusual development: a community powered by organic waste.
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The occasion was a Clinton Global Initiative forum on public infrastructure focused on environmental sustainability and creative financing for public construction projects.
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New incinerators appeal to cities looking to get rid of garbage and produce renewable power. But local leaders find it tough to weigh sparse evidence on health threats against public opposition.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border.
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Colorado's tough, new air pollution rules for the oil and gas industry were approved only a month ago, but they're already making an impact in Texas, where lawmakers and energy companies have long-resisted tightening air standards.
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The William and Cloy Codiga Resource Recovery Center will test new technologies intended to recover clean water, energy and materials from wastewater.
