Hard Facts

While work on the next surface reauthorization bill is still in its early stages, many see it as an opportunity to push for policies that would encourage resiliency, changing the way we plan, design, fund, and maintain facilities.The goal is to make transportation, communications, water, and energy investments more durable in the face of increasingly strong weather events and rising sea levels.The bi-partisan Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, shares that view, stumping for action since offering its policy options to achieve climate resilient infrastructure in January 2018.Kristiane Huber is the Center’s Resilience Fellow. She helped write the paper and visited the Hard Facts studio this week to talk about it. Links:Center for Climate and Energy SolutionsPolicy Options for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure