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Did You Thank An Inland Mariner This Fourth?
| 题名： | Did You Thank An Inland Mariner This Fourth? |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | A few months ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was predicting that an infrastructure package would be passed by July 4. That prediction proved to be a bit too optimistic, as negotiations are still ongoing between the two parties. Slow progress is being made nevertheless. A compromise bill for "hard" infra-structure projects (including port and some inland waterways projects) was decoupled from the soft "human infrastructure"proposals, which the administration is pursuing in a separate bill through the budget reconciliation process, which theoretically doesn't need the cooperation of Republicans.While the infrastructure drama plays out in Washington, a number of recent developments are highlighting the importance of inland waterways. A recent study showed that cities in middle and eastern Tennessee with access to barged petroleum products suffered less during the May hacker-induced shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline (WJ, June 25). To put it another way, the inland waterways are a crucial factor in the resilience of our en-ergy-supply system. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 14 |
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