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One-Two Punch of Earthquakes and Landslides Exposes Hydropower Vulnerability in Nepal

A pitch for a more resilient and distributed electricity supply in quake-prone Nepal.

House Approves Short-Term Financing for Highways

Congress has been grappling with how to pay for maintenance and upgrades to roads, bridges and other infrastructure since the last plan expired in 2009.

Our Trouble With Trains

Amtrak was a devil’s bargain from the start.

Brown’s Arid California, Thanks Partly to His Father

Gov. Jerry Brown is coping with the modern-day California that his father, Edmund G. Brown Sr., helped to create.

Wreck Adds to the Debate on Amtrak Funding

Days after the deadly train derailment in Philadelphia, the debate over Amtrak funding continues to be a partisan flash point in Congress.

Reinvest in Transportation

Zoe Lipman of the BlueGreen Alliance writes that “reinvesting in America’s aging, overburdened transportation infrastructure is critical to ensuring economic opportunity.”

Some Riders in Philadelphia Amtrak Crash Still Missing as Inquiry Continues

Officials sorted through passenger lists to try to account for everyone on the train, as investigators on Thursday pored over the remaining passenger cars.

After the Amtrak Crash: Preventing Future Derailments

Readers react to the Amtrak accident in Philadelphia.

Amtrak Commuters’ Struggles to Continue for Several Days

With Amtrak suspending service in its Northeast Corridor, people scrambled to find buses, rental cars and flights to get where they needed to go.

Amtrak Crash and America’s Declining Construction Spending

The derailment has renewed a political debate, with infrastructure spending now at its smallest share of G.D.P. in at least 22 years.

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