Commercial Observer » Government considering a public-private partnership (P3) to get financing for the project.
The Sacramento Bee » Interior Secretary Sally Jewell issued an order Wednesday directing federal officials to complete a preliminary environmental review this month of the massive twin tunnels proposed for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio » The $1.487 billion agreement between the federal government and Metro calls for a $1.187 billion construction grant through the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grant program along with a $307 million loan from the Department of Transportation.
Mashable » For more than a year, Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, has been hounding federal climate scientists about a landmark scientific study, published in 2015, whose results he didn’t like. Now comes proof from an independent group of scientists that affirms those findings.