Annual spending in year four of a four-year, $2 trillion infrastructure, clean energy, and energy efficiency program
Program category | Annual spending (billions$) |
---|---|
Infrastructure program elements | |
Surface transportation | $105.9 |
Water/wastewater treatment | $10.1 |
Electricity | $17.0 |
Airports | $4.0 |
Inland waterways/ports | $1.4 |
Dams | $3.8 |
Hazardous and solid waste | $0.7 |
Levees | $6.7 |
Public parks and recreation | $9.8 |
Rail | $2.8 |
Schools | $36.5 |
Natural gas pipelines | $17.6 |
Broadband | $33.7 |
Total | $250 |
Renewable energy | |
Wind | $84.4 |
Solar energy | $84.4 |
Geothermal energy | $18.8 |
Energy efficiency | |
Building retrofits | $29.3 |
Industrial efficiency | $4.9 |
High-efficiency autos | $4.9 |
Land and agriculture | |
Land restoration | $7.8 |
Agriculture | $15.6 |
Total | $250 |
Notes: This table takes the $500 billion that would be spent annually as part of a four-year, $2 trillion spending proposal and allocates it in proportion to spending assumptions in Sierra Club 2020, a report analyzed by the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) (Pollin and Chakraborty 2020). Totals may not sum due to rounding.
Source: Authors’ analysis of Pollin and Chakraborty 2020 and Chakraborty 2020.