Texas Will Benefit From Improved Mitigation Strategies In Infrastructure Law

Texas Will Benefit From Improved Mitigation Strategies In Infrastructure Law

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: U. S. President Joe Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs ... [+] Act as he is surrounded by lawmakers and members of his Cabinet during a ceremony on the South Lawn at the White House on November 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. The $1. 2 trillion package will provide funds for public infrastructure projects including improvements to the country's transportation networks, increasing rural broadband access, and projects to modernizing water and energy systems. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Last week, President Biden signed the biggest piece of infrastructure legislation this century. It came just a few days after a global conference on climate change that many criticized as a tepid response to the challenges of global warming. The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill has received similar criticism from some progressives, who decry its focus on mitigating the impact of already-existing climate change weather events rather than broader change. They have undersold it as mostly a roads-and-cars bill, frustrated that only 5% of the funds are dedicated to climate change-related issues. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in an interview with Rachel Maddow, expressed concerns that the legislation, if passed independently of a larger climate change