The first major infusion of federal cash from the bipartisan infrastructure law is on its way to states across the country to overhaul the nation’s aging water infrastructure and dangerous lead pipes.
The EPA will distribute $7.4 billion to states, tribes and territories focused on water infrastructure grants and loan forgiveness. The agency says it’s the “single largest investment in water infrastructure” in the history of the federal government.
OPEC and allied oil-producing countries have decided to stick to their plans to boost oil production even as the covid variant casts a shadow of uncertainty over the global economic recovery from the pandemic.
Officials from OPEC countries, led by Saudi Arabia, and their allies, led by Russia, voted to deliver steady, modest monthly increases in oil releases — a pace that’s frustrating the U.S. and other oil-consuming nations as gasoline prices have risen.
