Climate activists and their Democratic allies in Congress are pressing with renewed urgency for huge investments to slow global warming, after a bipartisan infrastructure plan cut out some of President Joe Biden’s key climate initiatives.
The outage comes on what travelers expect will be the busiest day since the pandemic began, and social media postings show big crowds at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport waiting for flights.
Minnesota lawmakers set aside $10 million for the project. The money from the state was the final piece needed to jump-start the additional round-trip service to Chicago’s Union Station.
President Joe Biden will look to sell voters on the economic benefits of the $973 billion infrastructure package while in Wisconsin on Tuesday, hoping to boost the bipartisan agreement that is held together in large part by the promise of millions of new jobs.
Metro Transit workers said they started picketing Wednesday to call attention to ongoing contract negotiations with the state's largest transit agency.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that time is running short for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, indicating that President Joe Biden will look to act without Republican support if there is no consensus when Congress returns from its Memorial Day break.
"We've never before seen aggression and violence on our planes like we have in the past five months," said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union.
The first post-pandemic cruise from a U.S. port will embark next month. While they still have to follow CDC rules and guidelines, the go-ahead puts wind in the sails of cruise lines, which have high hopes for a quick recovery.
The passenger flight carrying Roman Protasevich, the former editor of an opposition social media channel, made an emergency landing after reports of a bomb on board. No explosives were found.