Coalition Members: Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Delaware Department of Transportation, Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE), and Maryland Department of Transportation
The selected application will fund the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel by deploying electric vehicle charging infrastructure for commercial zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (ZE-MHDVs) traveling along the Interstate-95 freight corridor and adjacent roadways from Connecticut to Maryland. The project will provide technical assistance to support the development of charging sites, deliver training and provide support services to establish a skilled workforce, conduct meaningful community engagement, and enable planning by states and stakeholders along the corridor. The four-state coalition will collaborate to deploy infrastructure and conduct workforce development activities to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission trucks in the these states along one of the busiest highways in the country.
Based on information provided by the applicant, the selected project will deliver the following benefits to reduce GHGs and support communities 1 :
Activities in the selected application reflect measures in Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Priority Climate Action Plan (pdf) (2.87 MB), the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Priority Climate Action Plan (pdf) (1.27 MB), the Maryland Department of the Environment Priority Climate Action Plan (pdf) (3.3 MB), and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Priority Climate Action Plan (pdf) (11.6 MB).
1 The emission reduction estimates, as well as the descriptions of measures and benefits, were summarized from information provided by the applicant. These estimates, along with the award amount, are subject to change.
EPA will award grants to selected applicants once they meet all legal and administrative requirements. As of July 2024, grants are expected to be awarded by the end of 2024.
Authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act, EPA’s CPRG program will provide nearly $5 billion in grants for states, local governments, Tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution while benefitting low-income and disadvantaged communities.
For more information, visit Climate Pollution Reduction Grants .
It all started with a software update .
Microsoft’s “blue screen of death” upended government services and businesses across the country Friday, disrupting emergency call centers , banks, airlines and hospitals.
While Microsoft said a faulty software update from U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike was responsible for the major IT outage, the incident brought attention to just how big of a market share both companies have in their respective sectors.
“When we use all the same vendors, then these sorts of things can become more pronounced when they do happen,” said Dominic Sellitto , clinical assistant professor of management science and systems at the University at Buffalo School of Management in New York.
A statement from CrowdStrike said the outage was caused by a defect in a content update to its “Falcon" cybersecurity defense software for Windows hosts.
Computers with Mac and Linux operating systems were not impacted, and CrowdStrike said the incident was not caused by a cyberattack.
There's always the potential for bugs or errors when new software is launched, but most times they’re small enough the end user is generally unaware, according to Tim Ehrenkaufer, assistant professor of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida.
The nation was certainly aware Friday – the glitch disrupted everything from 911 call centers to the Starbucks mobile app.
"As companies all over the world and governments and agencies and entities are reliant on single technology platforms, it does mean that these types of events are more and more and more painful," Sellitto of the University at Buffalo said.
CrowdStrike is advertised as being used by more than half of Fortune 500 companies.
Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Windows is one of the most popular operating systems in the world, and the company provides an estimated 85% of the productivity software used by the federal government, according to statements from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., during last month’s House Committee on Homeland Security.
“The issue we're dealing with is that the world is complex and interdependent, and the fact is that the technology that we use is global,” said Scott White , an associate professor and director of the cybersecurity program and cyber academy at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. "We've become dependent on organizations like (Microsoft)."
CrowdStrike outage: Global tech outage hits airlines, banks, health care and public transit
Within hours of the outage, some lawmakers and cybersecurity experts discussed whether Congress – or the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security – need to add more regulatory guardrails to make sure an outage of this magnitude doesn’t happen again.
Paul Rosenzweig, a former DHS deputy assistant secretary for policy, said the best response to Friday’s outage would be to require companies and governments to have redundant systems so they have a backup when their systems go down.
Asking companies to do that on their own would be prohibitively costly, Rosenzweig said, and few would do it. But it would be hard for Congress or the Biden administration to require them to without doing the same within the government, which would be time-consuming and astronomically expensive.
“It’s an interesting question,” said Rosenzweig, founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security and cybersecurity consulting company. “The government can't mandate people diversifying if it won't do it itself ‒ and it's the biggest, if not certainly one of the biggest (Microsoft) clients."
But Rosenzweig also warned that Friday’s outage is likely to happen again, and possibly with more serious repercussions , so governments and the private sector need to be ready.
“They have to spend extra money” to build in better protection including backups, he said. “If companies aren't going to do that, this will happen again, either by accident like this time or by malicious action.”
Other cybersecurity experts believe the system works as it is, and that CrowdStrike bears full responsibility for the outage in ways that wouldn’t be helped by additional government intervention.
“This incident appears to be a severe failure of quality control, not a malicious act,” cybersecurity strategist and former FBI counterintelligence official Eric O’Neill said of Friday’s paralysis. “While there will be damages assessed, regulation is unnecessary; the market will drive customers to other vendors or reassure them about CrowdStrike.”
O’Neill did say, however, better regulation of cybersecurity investment and best practices is critical because the U.S. government “has reacted poorly in this crucial arena of critical infrastructure.”
“If the U.S. government needs to bail out CrowdStrike, which I believe is too big to fail, then taxpayers will bear the burden,” O’Neill said.
In recent years, DHS and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have worked to build out a network of public and private sector partnerships to help it respond to such global incidents, in the belief that the government cannot do it alone.
Educating the private sector and cybersecurity firms on what to do – and not to do – is a critical component of that, whether the problem is a cyberattack or a faulty cybersecurity update, CISA Director Jen Easterly told USA TODAY in a 2022 interview.
To that end, CISA on Friday said it was “aware of the widespread outage affecting Microsoft Windows hosts due to an issue with a recent CrowdStrike update and is working closely with CrowdStrike and federal, state, local, tribal and territorial partners, as well as critical infrastructure and international partners to assess impacts and support remediation efforts.”
CISA also warned its network of public and private partners it observed hackers and other “threat actors taking advantage of this incident for phishing and other malicious activity.”
CrowdStrike and Microsoft business clients may consider alternate vendors after the global outage, but that's no solution to the crux of the issue, said Javad Abed, an expert in cybersecurity and data vulnerability and assistant professor at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
"The CrowdStrike incident is a stark reminder that relying on a single cybersecurity tool, regardless of a vendor's reputation, creates a dangerous single point of failure," Abed said. "And implementing multiple layers with multiple vendors is crucial for business continuity and protecting critical operations."
This sort of outage can happen to any vendor or company, Abed said, but it is largely preventable, and one of the fundamental principles of cybersecurity is redundancy.
Having redundancies in the infrastructure may be costly in the beginning, but would be an investment in maintaining the trust between the businesses and their customers, Abed said. Companies should also rethink their testing and how they release updates, he says.
It's a wake-up call for cybersecurity companies to revise their procedures, Abed said.
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Eight million borrowers who are enrolled in the plan, known as SAVE, are left in limbo after a series of rulings tied to two lawsuits brought by Republican-led states.
By Tara Siegel Bernard
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new student loan repayment plan, in a move that could unleash chaos for the eight million borrowers enrolled in the program.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit, based in St. Louis, granted a request by a group of Republican-led states for an administrative stay, which prevents the Biden administration from “implementing or acting pursuant to the final rule,” according to the court filing, which refers to the rule that created the SAVE program .
This ruling is just the latest in a series that have sprung from separate lawsuits brought by two groups of Republican-led states challenging the legality of the SAVE repayment plan, which ties monthly payments to a borrower’s income and household size. The program , which opened in August last year, is more generous than previous iterations of income-driven repayment plans and has generated zero-dollar payments for 4.5 million low-income borrowers.
“We are assessing the impacts of this ruling and will be in touch directly with borrowers with any impacts that affect them,” a spokesperson for the Education Department said.
Consumer advocates said they were anxiously awaiting how the U.S. Justice Department, along with the Education Department , will interpret the latest order and how it will affect borrowers.
“It really is important to highlight how unfair this is to borrowers — this is their financial lives, and they’re being tossed around,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group.
Even before Thursday’s ruling, Biden administration officials had concluded that lawsuits attacking their policies around college affordability would remain close to inevitable.
“Every turn we take, whether that’s debt relief or making the payments more affordable so people don’t go into default, is going to be challenged,” Miguel A. Cardona, the education secretary, said during a visit to Clark Atlanta University on Wednesday.
Alan Blinder contributed reporting.
Tara Siegel Bernard writes about personal finance, from saving for college to paying for retirement and everything in between. More about Tara Siegel Bernard
He could unleash the federal government to punish his political enemies – which is why, in Trump’s own words, he is the apple of Vladimir Putin’s eye. (AP Photo | Steve Helber) AP
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, some on the right are claiming it’s off-limits to even suggest that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his extreme visions for a second term, are a threat to our democracy.
But while political violence is deplorable in any form, we do need to be upfront about how the MAGA movement’s plans would subvert our democracy. And “Project 2025″ lays it all out, in black and white.
Trump is pretending that he has no idea what this plan is, or who’s behind it, as if this is the first he’s ever heard of the Heritage Foundation’s nearly 900-page roadmap for his possible second term. Instead, he is showcasing his party’s official platform.
But evidence shows that’s just another lie, from a man who’s told more than 30,000 of them, according to the Washington Post. Let’s take a closer look.
Start with the video of Trump cheering on this project from the moment it got off the ground. “Our country is going to hell…” he declared at a Heritage Foundation dinner in 2022. “This is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do…when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America. And that’s coming.”
This kind of talk scares normal voters, of course, so Trump is now falsely claiming that he knows “nothing about Project 2025,” and “I disagree with some of the things they’re saying,” which itself reveals the lie: He can’t make that judgement if he doesn’t know anything about it, right?
Trump, in April '22, keynoted a Heritage dinner as it began work on Project 2025: “This is a great group & they’re going to lay the groundwork & detail plans for exactly what our movement will do ... when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America." pic.twitter.com/2ni0XESMci — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) July 11, 2024
His claim to have “no idea who is behind it” is an obvious lie, too. At least 140 people who worked for him had a hand in this project, CNN found , including his top advisors during his first term, who are likely to serve in prominent posts if he wins again.
Trump’s agenda and Project 2025 have “tremendous” overlap , the leader of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, confirms, and Trump’s attempt to distance himself from the project is “a political tactical decision.” Trump “is very bought in with this,” the director of Project 2025, Paul Dans, agrees. Trump’s own superPAC calls it “Trump’s Project2025.”
And in his first term, Trump “embraced nearly two-thirds of the policy recommendations” that the Heritage Foundation put forth, the group boasts. So, what’s in store for round two?
Project 2025 outlines deeply alarming plans to subvert the tradition of an independent FBI and Justice Department and allow Trump to use them to explicitly go after his critics, like Liz Cheney. He could unleash the federal government to punish his political enemies – which is why, in Trump’s own words, he is the apple of Vladimir Putin’s eye.
Trump’s attempts to disassociate himself from this plan aren’t very compelling, given that just this month, he amplified posts by users of Truth Social demanding “ televised military tribunals ” of his political enemies – whom he’s called “vermin” – and the jailing of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Mike Pence, among others.
How do you have a democracy like that? You don’t.
Which is why an incredible list of people who formerly worked with Trump have warned against re-electing him – among them, his vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, chief of staff, national security adviser, press secretary, communications director and attorney general. As Trump’s former White House communications director, Alyssa Farah Griffin, told ABC: “Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don’t say that lightly.”
Trump’s also preparing to fire tens of thousands of nonpartisan federal employees and install loyalists who agree with his extreme visions. Take his vow to cut funding to “any school that has a vaccine mandate” – polio, measles, etc. His campaign has claimed this is about COVID, but strikingly, Trump has refused to specify .
He could do this with a docile federal bureaucracy under Project 2025, putting thousands of children at risk. He could decide which medicines the government approves. Remember all those nonsense cures he promoted for COVID?
He could order the most sweeping mass deportations in history. Other highlights include: Abolishing the Department of Education, undoing programs to combat climate change, limiting the U.S. role in NATO, rescinding regulations that bar discrimination against gay people, accelerating production of nuclear weapons, and so on.
Trump understands his political vulnerability on the issue of abortion and has been hiding his true intentions, which are also revealed in Project 2025. His team wants to prosecute anyone who sends abortion pills through the mail, reverse the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone and stop requiring hospitals that get federal funds to provide emergency, life-saving abortions.
Trump says it’s not true, but do you trust him? Remember, he once declared that women who have abortions should be punished. He appointed three Federalist Society-recommended justices to the Supreme Court who overturned Roe v. Wade . What matters, ultimately, are the people he empowers. How far will they go? We don’t know. And that’s the danger of Trump.
All of this gets lost in the noise, because we’re so used to his wild ravings. But this is about real policy, and real people, and the voters deserve to know.
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It all started with a software update. Microsoft's "blue screen of death" upended government services and businesses across the country Friday, disrupting emergency call centers, banks ...
A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the Biden administration's new student loan repayment plan, in a move that could unleash chaos for the eight million borrowers enrolled in the program.
Project 2025 outlines deeply alarming plans to subvert the tradition of an independent FBI and Justice Department and allow Trump to use them to explicitly go after his critics, like Liz Cheney.
A global software outage Friday brought many computer systems across business, healthcare, technology and government sectors to a screeching halt in under 12 hours.
The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike ...