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Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Thursday, April 8th, 2010
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Kathryn Phillips is the Director of the California Transportation and Air Initiative at Environmental Defense Fund. Before joining Environmental Defense, Kathryn was the senior policy advisor at the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT) in Sacramento, and a lobbyist for V. John White Associates. Kathryn also worked for nearly 20 years as a journalist. She wrote for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics, specializing in the later years on science and environmental issues. She is the author of two books about environmental issues.

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Regional Plan Association (RPA) addresses infra issues at Regional Assembly 2010 in NYC, April 16th

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
REGIONAL ASSEMBLOY 2010

REGIONAL ASSEMBLY 2010: INNOVATION & THE AMERICAN METROPOLIS
“The Regional Assembly is New York’s premier public policy event, bringing together several hundred top business, civic, philanthropic, media, and government leaders from across the metropolitan region and nation. Each year the Assembly focuses on a priority issue. This year, we examine how the innovative spirit and creativity of urban America can build and sustain a better future for our cities.”

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High-Speed Rail: Track to the Future?

Monday, March 29th, 2010

BLUEPRINT AMERICA
With the one-year mark of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan approaching last month, the White House selected 13 passenger rail corridors in 31 states to receive funding. High-speed rail projects in Florida, Illinois and California were the big winners.

Here’s the dream: A sleek, state-of-the-art train that whisks you from LA to San Francisco in less than three hours, and helps save the planet while doing so.

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Bicycling and Walking in the United States: 2010 Benchmarking Report

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
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ALLIANCE FOR BIKING AND WALKING
-States spend just 1.2% of their federal transportation dollars on bicycling and walking. This amounts to just $1.29 per capita.
-From 2000 to 2007, the number of commuters who bicycle to work increased by 42%.

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The Good Haul: Innovations That Improve Freight Transportation and Protect the Environment

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but it comes at a high price for the environment and local communities. Moving freight creates traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic air pollution and noise in local communities. Without thoughtful infrastructure and operations improvements, projected increases in trade threaten to make these problems worse and place greater strains on the nation’s aging infrastructure.

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Transmission Policy for Solar Generation

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION
Solar generators are stuck playing by the rules crafted in an era of coal‐fired power plants. What we need now is an investment in infrastructure to connect areas rich in solar resources with major population centers. A new, solar‐ friendly transmission grid will only be possible if significant changes are made to transmission policy in this country.

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Moving Forward: A Better Way to Govern Regional Transportation

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

CITY CLUB OF PORTLAND
Is the governance structure for transportation (including planning, allocation of federal and state funds to specific projects, and other top-level decision making) in the Portland metropolitan region adequate to meet the needs of a region facing significant growth, aging infrastructure, and climate change?

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NEW ERA OF INTERBASIN WATER TRANSFERS

Monday, March 15th, 2010

THE WATER REPORT
An interbasin transfer of water is the diversion of water from one water source basin to another. How many of these occur depends on the scale one considers. An interbasin water transfer can take place on the scale of a transfer of water from one small stream to another, or to a transfer from water sources draining to the Pacific Ocean to water sources draining to the Gulf of Mexico. Even if you consider only largescale transfers, trillions of gallons of water are transferred among basins each year to serve hundreds of thousands of farmers and millions of municipal residences. As noted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in announcing its rule on the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and water transfers (discussed below)

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Chicago-St. Louis 220-mph trains would create more than 40,000 jobs, reduce harmful CO2 emissions by nearly 200 million pounds: new study

Monday, March 8th, 2010

MIDWEST HIGH-SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION
CHICAGO, Ill. – Proposed 220-mph high speed rail to cut the Chicago-St. Louis trip to less than two hours would also provide a major boost to the economy and efforts to reduce harmful emissions

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AWEA YEAR END 2009 MARKET REPORT

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The U.S. wind industry broke all previous records by installing close to 10,000 megawatts of new generating capacity in 2009 thanks to Recovery Act incentives. The total installed capacity in the U.S. is now over 35,000 MW. In 2009, 38 manufacturing facilities were brought online, announced or expanded…

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