Transmission lines, safety standards, and bridges: The country’s infrastructure focus is on updating what we have and getting creative with what’s next, and it’s the thread running through this edition as well. In our top story, drinking water utilities have an expensive path to complying with new PFAS standards, but they don’t have to come up with the money alone. In the government sphere, OSHA and the NLRB are pushing for new rules, but one of them is facing a roadblock. Meanwhile, Charleston is building a historic bridge as California approves 26 transmission projects. There’s also an eye-opening port report, a dispute-settling microgrid, and a deep dive on BABA’s effect on one particular sector of infrastructure.

   — Jennifer Ramsay