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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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.
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A report from the Partnership for Policy Integrity says biomass plants can release 2.5 times more pollution than a coal plant.
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Countless connected devices are on the way - though you're probably already an Internet of Things user without even realizing it.
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Despite 200 years of development, train accidents are still a cause for concern in the rail industry, but now sensor technologies are helping make things safer.
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Mayor Billy Kenoi aims to turn waste into a commodity on the Big Island.
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A summit organized by Forbes took on the tall order of figuring out how the promise of a new industrial revolution might put U.S. cities at the forefront of innovation, industry and infrastructure.
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The mayors of Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth support a private high-speed rail project that's poised to connect them even more closely.
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Nevada political, business and education leaders say drones will create a $2.5 billion industry for the state and create 12,000 to 15,000 jobs.
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Five years ago, the idea of exporting U.S. gas and oil was not only unheard of, but, in the case of most U.S. crude oil, illegal. Now, the U.S. energy industry is pushing for a new era of exports.
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With four plants currently in operation and a fifth slated to go into service this year, Israel is meeting much of its water needs by purifying seawater from the Mediterranean. Some 80 percent of domestic water use in Israeli cities comes from desalinated water.
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Fueled by a fundamental shift in the way people move about communities, cities, and regions, new innovations are being introduced that can make walking a high-tech exercise.
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A trade group wants to create a pathway for self-driving vehicles from Canada, through North Dakota and other states south to Mexico.
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The federal government is promoting an alternative building material for skyscrapers that's as strong as steel or concrete, but with a smaller price tag and environmental footprint. The miracle product? Wood.
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After installing the second most new wind capacity in the United States in 2013, following on the third most in 2012, Kansas has blown past a number of states in its percentage of electricity generated from wind.
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A revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun will help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation.
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It's no longer science fiction: Several car companies say they'll begin selling vehicles that can drive themselves -- at least part of the time -- by the end of this decade.
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