The House of Representatives voted on November 5, 2021, to pass the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will boost spending on highways, transit and rail, electric vehicles, climate resilience, energy, and other infrastructure priorities.[1] The Senate approved the bill in August 2021. With approval from the House, the bill now heads to President Biden, who is expected to sign the law. The bill is the result of bipartisan conversations in the Senate that worked to approve some of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan, which proposed $2.3 trillion spending on infrastructure and climate.

In total, the infrastructure bill includes $550 billion in new federal investment, as well as the establishment of a Grid Deployment Authority under the DOE to oversee the development of the power grid. Major energy-related funding in the bill includes $65 billion for energy and the electric grid, such as building thousands of miles of new power lines and expanding renewable energy; $7.5 bill to build a nationwide network of EV charging stations; and $7.5 billion for zero- and low-emission buses and ferries. The infrastructure bill also allocates $50 billion for cyber and climate resilience over five years.

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117hr3684eas/pdf/BILLS-117hr3684eas.pdf