In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.

  • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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    Even typical infrastructure funding ultimately gets money from the EPA. Before it was just NEPA projects, but now we have BIL, ARPA, and WIIN grant projects.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I mentioned that. People don’t really have a concept of how much money the federal government is giving to states for infrastructure projects…

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        1 year ago

        I was on site for an ARPA project and the contractor was complaining that Biden never did anything for rural America…

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          Yeah, the cognitive dissonance is wild. Even in a blue state.