Federal Highway Act and climate change

This summer, many people around the country experienced extreme weather — heat, drought, thunderstorms, and flooding. After undergoing the hottest July on record, there is a sense of urgency about addressing climate change. The good news is we have an abundance of clean energy resources in this country that don’t emit greenhouse gasses, the primary factor that is causing the climate to change.

The problem is that our electrical transmission system is out-of-date and we are unable to move all that clean energy around. We need to upgrade our transmission system.

In the 1950s, our country experie...