{"id":788268,"date":"2022-09-05T05:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=254225"},"modified":"2022-09-05T05:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:32:58","slug":"how-to-green-our-parched-farmlands-and-finance-critical-infrastructure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/05\/how-to-green-our-parched-farmlands-and-finance-critical-infrastructure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress has passed two major infrastructure bills in the last year, but imminent needs remain. The\u00a02021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law\u00a0chiefly focused on conventional highway programs, and the\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA)\u00a0mainly centered on energy security and combating climate change.\u00a0According to the American Society of Civil Engineers\u00a0(ASCE), over $2 trillion in much-needed infrastructure is still unfunded,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/05\/how-to-green-our-parched-farmlands-and-finance-critical-infrastructure\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/05\/how-to-green-our-parched-farmlands-and-finance-critical-infrastructure\/\">How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/05\/how-to-green-our-parched-farmlands-and-finance-critical-infrastructure\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress has passed two major infrastructure bills in the last year, but imminent needs remain. The\u00a02021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law\u00a0chiefly focused on conventional highway programs, and the\u00a0Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA)\u00a0mainly centered on en&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788269,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788268\/revisions\/788269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}