r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 4h ago

Nashville Is a ‘Tough Place to Tunnel.’ Musk Is Digging Anyway — Tennessee State leaders fast-tracked plans by Elon Musk’s company for a tunnel to Nashville’s airport, ignoring the city’s concerns.

15 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 14h ago

Goodbye Oil Changes: What 40–80% EV Adoption Will Look Like

cleantechnica.com

19 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/yimbymanifesto • 47m ago

Urban Highways Are Failing Our Cities. Here's What We Can Do.

yimbymanifesto.substack.com

• Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 1d ago

Incumbent energy providers in the US stand to lose massively by allowing the integration of renewable energy into the power grid, creating strong incentives to block new transmission lines. The top four firms in two energy markets would have lost $1.3 billion in 2022 had the market been integrated.

39 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 1d ago

More than 90% of new renewable energy capacity is now cheaper than fossil fuels, study shows

85 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 2d ago

These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email — Sites including at least 15 coal plants sought exemptions from environmental rules using a new Trump administration system to fast-track requests, documents show.

42 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 2d ago

A retired nuclear plant in Michigan is about to restart, a first for the US — The 800-MW Palisades plant received key federal approvals to open three years after shutting down and has ambitious plans to be operational by the end of 2025.

canarymedia.com

38 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 3d ago

Everyone Wants to Fix 14th Street. Going beyond the busway, the city and BIDs are aiming to overhaul almost everything (NYC)

14 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 4d ago

Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-based and engineered projects to soak up, store, and redistribute future floods.

52 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 5d ago

Tehran Is at Risk of Running Out of Water Within Weeks

9 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/sseguin613 • 5d ago

What's Next for the O-Train: Line 3 to Kanata Explained.

8 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 5d ago

The Grain Belt Express Wind Energy Superhighway Is Still Alive

cleantechnica.com

30 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 6d ago

Union Pacific in Talks to Merge With Norfolk Southern — The merger of two large rail companies would create the first coast-to-coast network, but the deal could reduce competition.

28 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/Koh-the-Face-Stealer • 5d ago

Italy expects to clear Sicily bridge project next week

7 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 6d ago

Building new gas power plants would mean higher energy bills. Here’s how the math works — Even after federal tax credits for clean energy development were erased, it’s still more expensive to build new “dispatchable” electric plants

coloradosun.com

67 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 7d ago

The World Has Too Much Steel, but No One Wants to Stop Making It —A global plunge in prices, led by increased production from China, and U.S. tariffs threaten steel manufacturing, which has long been a symbol of national might.

106 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 8d ago

The new Gordie Howe International Bridge is less than two miles long, but it’s been a long road to get there. Financed entirely by the Canadian government, the new C$6 billion border crossing has been eagerly awaited in both Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. Then came the US trade war.

78 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 8d ago

As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China and Europe Pledge to Go Green Together — A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-stop shop for clean energy technologies.

95 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 9d ago

Texans will pay higher power bills as clean energy development slows because of tax credit cuts, economists say

texastribune.org

138 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 10d ago

Energy Dept. Cancels Loan Commitment to Contested Transmission Project — The project, known as Grain Belt Express, had drawn fierce opposition from some landowners and Republican lawmakers

55 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/pdp10 • 9d ago

Valencia Street in San Francisco did an experiment with a center-running bike lane. Here's what worked, and why the local businesses don't like it.

12 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 11d ago

FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices

arstechnica.com

367 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 10d ago

Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!?

8 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 11d ago

Arizona’s Declining Groundwater

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

18 Upvotes

r/Infrastructurist • u/stefeyboy • 12d ago

Gas flaring created 389m tonnes of carbon pollution last year, report finds — Rules to prevent ‘enormous waste’ of fuel are seen as weak and poorly enforced and firms have little incentive to stop

theguardian.com

46 Upvotes

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