{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-kaine-and-scott-applaud-380-million-in-inflation-reduction-act-funding-for-port-of-virginia", "Warner, Kaine, and Scott Applaud $380 Million in Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Port of Virginia", "2024-10-29", "2024", "2024-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "VA", "Tim Kaine", "K000384", "www.kaine.senate.gov", "kaine", "https://www.kaine.senate.gov/news", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) announced $380,000,000 in federal funding for the Port of Virginia to accelerate its plan to become carbon-neutral by 2040. Warner, Kaine, and Scott advocated for this funding and sent a letter of support for this grant. The funding was awarded through the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Clean Ports Program, which was made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act that the members helped pass.\n\n\u201cThe Port of Virginia is one of the largest and busiest ports on the eastern seaboard, and it\u2019s critical to Virginia\u2019s economy and offshore wind industry. As the Port of Virginia continues to grow thanks to investments we\u2019re making, we must also ensure we\u2019re reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which result in negative health and environmental impacts for our communities,\u201d said the lawmakers. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re thrilled that this federal funding, which was made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act we supported, will accelerate the Port\u2019s efforts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and further cement Virginia\u2019s place as a leader in clean energy.\u201d\n\nThe Inflation Reduction Act made historic investments to support clean energy projects. It included clean energy tax credits that have incentivized a series of corporate investments in Virginia, including:\n\nA $681 million investment by LS GreenLink to build a state-of-the-art facility to manufacture high-voltage subsea cables used for offshore wind farms in Chesapeake, which will create over 330 jobs in Virginia.\n\nAn investment of over $400 million by Topsoe to build a new manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County, which will create at least 150 new jobs in Virginia.\n\nAn investment of $208 million by Mack and Volvo Trucks\u2014in addition to a federal grant award of over $208 million for the company\u2014to sustain 7,900 union jobs and create 295 new jobs in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Volvo Trucks is the second largest employer in the New River Valley, sustaining 3,600 jobs in Dublin, including 3,200 United Automobile Workers (UAW) jobs. In September 2024, Warner and Kaine visited Volvo\u2019s New River Valley plant to celebrate the investment.\n\nToday\u2019s announcement builds on other transformational investments made to the Port of Virginia by the Biden-Harris administration with the backing of Warner, Kaine, and Scott. That includes $225.4 million to fully fund the Norfolk Harbor Deepening and Widening Project, which will improve navigation and expand capacity by deepening and widening Norfolk Harbor\u2019s shipping channels, allowing for two-way traffic in and out of the harbor. Of this amount, $141.7 million was made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and $83.7 million was provided through the Fiscal Year 2022 omnibus appropriations bill.\n\nThe Port also previously received $20 million in federal funding from the Department of Transportation for improvements to Portsmouth Marine Terminal that will allow it to serve as a staging area to support the manufacturing and movement of offshore wind goods to support the 2.6 gigawatt Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind commercial project and other commercial offshore wind projects up-and-down the East Coast. Warner, Kaine, and Scott led a Virginia Congressional Delegation letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in support of the Port\u2019s application for that funding.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/warner-kaine-and-scott-applaud-380-million-in-inflation-reduction-act-funding-for-port-of-virginia"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8604579381644726, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}