On Tuesday, March 26, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I) held a hearing to explore options to improve our nation’s airport infrastructure. During the hearing, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investment in our Nation’s Airports Matters,” Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) noted that “crippling congestion has become the norm in our country” and that the congestion is having a…
Read MoreDay: March 29, 2019
Mineral Commodities in Fourth Quarter
March 29, 2019 – The U.S. Geological Survey released the quarterly report “U.S. Production of Selected Mineral Commodities in the Fourth Quarter 2018,” mine and plant production data for selected mineral commodities. The combined production of construction-related materials (cement, construction sand and gravel, crushed stone, and gypsum) in the fourth quarter of 2018 decreased by 14 percent compared with that in the third…
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