Infrastructure
How can we make it easier to build things in the world of atoms?
Construction productivity has actually fallen over the last 50 years in the U.S. And with the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the CHIPS and Science Act, hundreds of billions in public investment will be spent in the coming decade on energy, transportation, manufacturing, and other critical areas of American infrastructure.
We need to unblock the bottlenecks to building, ensuring that public money translates into real physical infrastructure that benefits Americans.
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Infrastructure
Stop Paying More for Less Transit
Fifteen ideas to bring costs down and speed projects up
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Infrastructure
Featured Publication
Stop Paying More for Less Transit
Fifteen ideas to bring costs down and speed projects up
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Infrastructure Research Team
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Emerging Technology
How to Build the Future of AI in the United States
Part Two of Compute in America
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Infrastructure
How NEPA Will Tax Clean Energy
The National Environmental Policy Act has become a barrier to environmental policy
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Emerging Technology
Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home
A new series from the Institute for Progress
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Infrastructure Research Team
Infrastructure
Seven Frequently Asked Questions About NEPA
Debunking common myths about the National Environmental Policy Act
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Infrastructure
We Must End the Litigation Doom Loop
It's time for Congress to impose a time limit on injunctions.
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Infrastructure
A Cheat Sheet for NEPA Judicial Reform
How do different reform proposals stack up?
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Infrastructure
Moving Past Environmental Proceduralism
If the activists of fifty years ago had known what we know now, what might they have done differently?
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Infrastructure
How Cost Allocation Works for Transmission Lines
Why it matters, and why it shouldn't stop the clean energy buildout
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Infrastructure
How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur in the American Vetocracy
A review of "Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better," by Jennifer Pahlka
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Infrastructure
How to Save America’s Transmission System
The overwhelming priority of energy policy must be making it easier to build things
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Infrastructure
The Policy Interventions that Could Boost Geothermal
Part Four of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
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Infrastructure
Barriers to Next-Gen Geothermal
Part Three of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
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Infrastructure
How Public Policy Accelerated the Shale Revolution
Part Two of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
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Infrastructure
The Technological Innovations that Produced the Shale Revolution
Part One of Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
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Infrastructure
Hot Rocks: Commercializing Next-Generation Geothermal Energy
A joint series from Employ America and Institute for Progress
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