Philippine Mining Companies Spend on Green
According to the Philippine newspaper The Freeman, mining companies spent at least P830 million ($17.3 million) in 2008 by mining companies in Central Visayas to comply with environmental requirements. ...
Oil Sand Co., Canada Extend Lease
The Fort Hills Energy L. P. reached an agreement with the government of Alberta, Canada to extend the term of the Fort Hills oil sands leases until 2019. The mine is located 90 kilometers north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. ...
Mobasher Becomes ACI Fellow
Barzin Mobasher, a professor in the department of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute....
Cemex, Core Banks Renegotiating Debt
Cemex has initiated discussions with its core banks to renegotiate the majority of its outstanding debt, or approximately $14.5 billion in syndicated and bilateral obligations. ...
Truck Show Attendance Grows 18.5%
More than 8,400 work truck industry professionals attended The Work Truck Show 2009 and 45th Annual National Truck Equipment Association Convention in Chicago ...
U.S. EPA unveils greenhouse reporting proposal
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed requiring businesses to report on their greenhouse gas emissions....
Democrats object to transportation scoring
A group of House and Senate Democrats is objecting to provisions in the Obama Administration’s infrastructure funding budget proposal that they say would have a detrimental impact on project funding...
House panel backs water infrastructure spending
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved a bill aimed at expanding support for U.S. water infrastructure...
Administration halts Bush-era Species Rule
As anticipated, the Obama Administration has frozen a Bush-era Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulation. ...
NSSGA picks Oklahoma's Rodriguez as state association executive of the year
Jim Rodriguez, executive director of the Oklahoma Aggregates Association in Oklahoma City, Okla., has been named NSSGA's 2008 State Aggregates Association Executive of the Year...
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Confirmed
Secretary Hilda Solis was confirmed as Secretary of Labor on February 24, 2009. ...
Kremer Wins Wendt Memorial Commitment Award
The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association today named Randy J. Kramer, vice president-manager of construction materials for Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction, Inc., recipient of the 12th annual Barry K. Wendt Memorial Commitment Award ...
Transportation Projects and Supporters Recognized
Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) accepts the Grand A congressional reception honoring “Champions of Transportation” and the 2008 America’s Transportation Awards Projects was held last night at the Rayburn House Office Building...
California aggregate group offers SMARA workshops
The California Construction and Industrial Materials Association will host a series of Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA) Workshops during 2009....
Obama seeks EPA budget hike | Rock Products | March 2009
The Obama administration's proposed fiscal 2010 budget for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeks a 34 percent hike in funding for the agency....
Hillhead postponed until 2010 due to economy
Because of the worldwide recession, QMJ Publishing Ltd. has decided to postpone the Hillhead show, originally scheduled for June 2009, for 12 months....
Mineral production declines Q4 2008
The U.S. Geological Survey's latest quarterly data on U.S. mineral commodity production reflect the overall decline in the U.S. economy and domestic housing...
Workshop will cover noise/dust exposure
How to monitor noise and dust exposure will be the topic of an April 21-23 safety and health workshop to be held at Luck Stone's Leesburg (Va.) quarry....
UK crushed-rock sales fall 29% in Q4 2008
Sales of crushed rock in the U.K. fell 29% during the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the same period last year, according to the latest figures released...
Intermat 2009 runs this April in Paris
Intermat 2009 will be held April 20-25 in Paris. Alternating every three years with ConExpo in Las Vegas and Bauma in Germany, Intermat brings together...
E-waste can be used in asphalt, researchers say
Discarded electronic hardware, including bits and pieces that helped build the information superhighway, can be recycled into an additive that makes asphalt...
Winter abrasive offers alternative to road salt
Irving Materials Inc., a Greenfield, Ind.-based aggregate producer, is supplying the community of Waverly, Tenn., with Winter Abrasive, an alternative...
Great Lakes shipments decrease in January
U.S.-Flag cargo movement on the Great Lakes fell below 1 million net tons in January 2009, for the first time since the recession of the mid-1980s, according...
Stimulus package may help construction
Much of the focus (with regard to construction projects) contained in the economic recovery legislation recently signed into law by President Obama has...
Hart wins NSC service to safety award
The National Safety Council has awarded its Distinguished Service to Safety Award to W. Ben Hart, program manager of the Florida Mine Safety & Health...
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