Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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Failure taught the city an important lesson: Go big or go home.
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The automaker will introduce updates to its Cadillac line and begin testing fully autonomous Chevrolet Volts at a company facility in Michigan in 2016.
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Local decision-makers who fail to prepare their communities for climate change could find themselves in court.
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A leader in urban innovation in both the public and private sectors, Gabe Klein offers lessons for local leaders around the country.
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States and countries with shale gas can learn from the mistakes made by other regions that rushed into fracking. Here’s one state’s plan.
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Pacific Gas & Electric, which serves much of California, hopes to cut carbon emissions and its own fuel bill by purchasing more electric and hybrid-electric vehicles.
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Pennsylvania is installing high-quality roadside sensors that can help guide road safety efforts.
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Many San Franciscans are seeing their rents rise as Google shuttles workers to and from Silicon Valley, prompting a call for increased regulation on the private buses using public bus stops.
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The plan will replace more than 100,000 streetlights in Minnesota, saving up to $5,000 a month for a modest-sized city.
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When an agency fails as spectacularly as the Boston region's transit system has, it's time for some competition.
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The City Council voted on a measure to increase solar power production by adding 600 megawatts by 2019.
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Gov. Bill Walker says the state needs money to help coastal villages. But most of Alaska's budget comes from oil.
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Experts say cutting ozone to federal health standards while meeting state greenhouse gas emissions targets will require a radical transformation of California's transportation sector over the next two decades.
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The combination of solar panels and battery systems could be invaluable to vulnerable populations.
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As part of the city’s long-term strategy to address climate change, de Blasio is urging five city pension funds to remove coal investments from their portfolios.
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The reasons for citizens' dissatisfaction vary from place to place -- but age isn't one of them.
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The car can't do everything by itself, but it has the ability to take on some aspects of driving via a software update available as of Thursday morning.
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The automaker is looking toward hydrogen fuel cells and hybrids, not electric, as the future of low-carbon driving.
