For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico’s crippled electrical grid, the territory’s state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall, the Washington Post reported today.
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It has been a month since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm and pummeled the island with sustained winds of 155 mph, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The storm devastated Puerto Rico’s water system, power grid, road network and cellphone infrastructure, and Maria is now responsible for at least 48 deaths.
Puerto Rico’s federal oversight board hired two firms to lobby in Washington, D.C., for policies that will help pull the bankrupt island out of a decade-long recession, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Williams & Jensen and Off Hill Strategies will push for policy changes at the White House and in Congress, according to contracts posted on the board’s website.
House lawmakers unveiled a bill yesterday that would provide $36.5 billion in emergency funding for hurricane and wildfire relief requested by the Trump administration, Bloomberg News reported.