Infrastructure Investment at a Glance
Tom will dedicate $2 trillion of public investment to mobilize over $6 trillion total for climate-smart infrastructure, including:
- $450B for maintenance backlog and resilience upgrades for existing roads, bridges, and levees
- Over $3T for energy, industry, and building upgrades and pollution reduction projects, including:
- Grid modernization and microgrid resilience projects
- Zero-carbon district energy (heating, cooling, water, and electricity)
- Clean industrial technology and efficiency
- Methane reduction and legacy gas system decommissioning
- Residential and commercial building upgrades
- Over $775B for clean-transportation infrastructure, including:
- Building 5 million electric vehicle charging stations by 2030
- Clean freight systems
- Rail and public transit
- Electrifying every school bus in the country
- Nearly $500B for food, water, public lands, parks, and access to nature, including:
- Clean drinking water, irrigation systems upgrades, and watershed protections
- Forests, fire management, and regenerative agriculture
- Coastal and inland wetlands, waterways and floodplains, and wildlife habitat
- National parks, including free admission for all Americans and fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund
- $555B for climate-smart communities and housing, including:
- Superfund cleanup, brownfield remediation, and safe re-use
- Clean, affordable housing, and safe walkable, bikeable community infrastructure
- Walkable communities and urban parks, green space, urban tree canopies, and rural clean transportation and connectivity
- $755B for community resilience
- Universal rent insurance fund for renters displaced by climate disaster
- Coastal community adaptation, resilience, and green infrastructure
- Social resilience professions and long-term disaster recovery workers, including nurses, social workers, long-term care providers, and maintenance professions
- Upgrading critical security, military, food, water, and water management infrastructure for increased extreme weather risks
- Bring universal broadband access to every community in America not currently served