Infrastructure

Nov 15 2024

Will Infrastructure Funding Get Cut by the Incoming Congress?

Talk about penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Sep 26 2024

Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Stop Companies with Ties to CCP from Receiving Tax Dollars to Build School Buses

It's commonsense legislation, and we're proud to support it.
Sep 10 2024

The Factory Boom is Drawing in Even More Domestic Investment

As once typical real-estate investment falters, developers are looking to build around future manufacturing sites.
Jul 22 2024

Cleveland-Cliffs Will Repurpose a Shuttered Tin Mill in West Virginia into an Electrical Distribution Transformer Plant

It's incredibly good news for Weirton, West Virginia, allowing 600 people to return to a union job. It also will help address a national transformer shortage.
May 27 2024

House Votes to Close a Loophole That’s Allowed Tax Money to Continue to Flow to a Chinese State-Owned Rail Car Maker

A bipartisan law passed by Congress in 2019 intended to stop taxpayer dollars from being granted to transit makers with ties to China's government.
May 17 2024

Infrastructure Week is No Longer a Punchline, But It’s Not Getting the Stage Either

Infrastructure got a lot of attention when things were bad. But now that there's good news, it's not making headlines -- but it should be.
May 16 2024

VICTORY: America’s Tax Dollars No Longer Will Fund Made in China Buses, Trams & More at U.S. Airports

Thousands of Alliance for American Manufacturing supporters wrote to their Members of Congress urging them to support legislation to close the loophole that allowed Chinese firms access to federal...
Apr 29 2024

Take Action: America’s Tax Money Must Not Fund China’s Buses and Trams at U.S. Airports!

A 2019 law stopped Chinese state-owned and supported firms from bidding on federally funded transit contracts for rail cars and buses. But a loophole is allowing these companies to access tax funds...
Apr 15 2024

Philadelphia’s SEPTA Transit System Officially Cancels Its Disastrous Rail Car Contract with Chinese State-owned Firm CRRC

SEPTA said the contract to build double-decker rail cars was "terminated for cause." CRRC failed to deliver a single car; the project was four years behind schedule and $50 million over budget.
Apr 02 2024

The Boston Boondoggle Continues! Transit Agency Agrees to Pay CRRC $148 Million More to Get its Very Delayed Rail Cars

The Chinese-state owned company CRRC already is years behind schedule and way over budget in completing its contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Now MBTA is going to...