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New Law Aims to Boost Low-Carbon Materials in Highways, Reconnect Neighborhoods

August 22, 2022

Via: ENR

The recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act contains highway-related provisions that aim to give a boost to infrastructure projects in disadvantaged communities and for the use of low-carbon construction materials on federal highway projects.

The larger of the two provisions provides $1.89 billion in fiscal 2022 funds for a new U.S. Dept. of Transportation Neighborhood Access and Equity Grants program, plus $1.26 billion for projects in economically disadvantaged areas.

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