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Supply Chain Risk: It’s Not Whether Severe Weather, but When

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”[5] Austin Becker, a maritime infrastructure resilience scholar at the University of Rhode Island, told Leslie, the pandemic is “a temporary problem,” while climate change is “long-term dire” problem. The previous record for billion-dollar events in a year was 16, in 2017 and 2011. In 2021, the U.S.

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Most Important U.S. Infrastructure to Build is within its Borders

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The 2017 report card assigns an overall D+ to America’s infrastructure highlighting just how serious the problem is. Michael Collins, President of MPC Management, explains, “America is essentially in an infrastructure collapse that is having dire effects on manufacturing. Bridges: C+. Self-interest.

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What a Biden Presidency Could Mean for the Automotive Industry

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When Donald Trump took office in 2017, he promised to reduce and reverse automotive regulations set by the Obama Administration and lighten the compliance requirements for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Green House Gas (GHG) programs. environmental regulations’ ambition. . From Trump to Biden. The Future with Biden.