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RCAP's post-State of the Union address follow-up

Last week, a few days before President Obama was set to deliver his annual State of the Union address, RCAP spearheaded an initiative and wrote a letter to Obama that 27 rural groups signed on to. The letter asked Obama to publicly commit to working with Congress to reauthorize the Farm Bill in his speech to Congress and the nation.

The Hill's Congress blog: Infrastructure we can bank on

The Hill's Congress Blog had a recent post in which Gregory Baird, a former financial officer and CFO of large cities and utilities and who now consults utility financial staff on infrastructure asset management best practices in the U.S. and Canada, wrote:

...before we start throwing private-public funding at our [water] infrastructure problems via an Infrastructure Bank or some other federal funding vehicle we must get a firm grasp on the crux of our problems and the most cost-effective, sustainable ways to solve them.

EPA water chief: Upgrading water infrastructure is good for environment, public health and job growth

In a recent blog post, the chief of the EPA's Office of Water said that upgrading water infrastructure is good for the environment and the public's health, but it also is good for economic growth and for jobs.

Read the post for the agency's Greenversations blog by acting Assistant Administrator Nancy Stoner