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The legislation makes a historic investment of $369 billion and includes funding for landscape architecture approaches to address climate change — from active transportation projects like Complete Streets and recreational trails, to nature-based water infrastructure, community tree planting, ecosystem restoration, and more.

The Infrastructure Reduction Act recognizes and funds landscape architecture approaches to address climate change — from active transportation projects like Complete Streets and recreational trails, to nature-based water infrastructure, community tree planting, ecosystem restoration, and more. Additionally, the legislation makes significant strides in addressing environmental and climate justice and ensuring underserved communities receive resources to adapt to a changing climate.

During the last several months, the Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing successfully mobilized to both dispel an anti-licensure movement in Louisiana and reinvigorate responsible licensing in Illinois. To these ends, ARPL generated in-state public opinion research, concise op-ed writing, a strong presence at legislative and business fora, and digital media innovation. These successes provide useful blueprints for landscape architects to reference in the profession’s own advocacy efforts.

The National Complete Street Coalition, of which ASLA is a founding member, released the Dangerous by Design 2022 report. The report’s resource dashboard provides tools including statistical overviews, an interactive searchable map of “dangerous streets” within the United States, and metropolitan and state rankings of pedestrian fatalities.

ASLA’s Government Affairs team will continue to monitor the administration’s climate-related developments closely and work with allies and partners to promote policies that seek to mitigate the impacts of climate change.