By Mark S. Kuhar A decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke a valid Clean Water Act (CWA) permit from a mining operation in West Virginia could have ripple effects on the ability of public agencies and private firms to deliver urgently-needed transportation-improvement projects for the nation, American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) First Vice Chairman…
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Congressional Inaction Killing Highway Work
Highway construction work dropped sharply in June, wiping out market gains from the previous seven months amid uncertainty over the federal aid highway program and the Highway Trust Fund, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
Read MoreEPA Rescinding Valid Clean Water Permits
A decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revoke a valid Clean Water Act (CWA) permit from a mining operation in West Virginia could have ripple effects on the ability of public agencies and private firms to deliver urgently-needed transportation-improvement projects for the nation, American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) First Vice Chairman Nick Ivanoff, president and…
Read MoreYoung Guns Work for the Future
June 15, 2014 – More than 50 “young guns” in the transportation design and construction industry took part in an intensive “boot camp” introduction to the federal legislative and regulatory processes, and then descended on Capitol Hill last week to press their members of Congress to fix the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) and pass a long-term surface transportation bill. They…
Read MoreGrow America Act: An Analysis
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled the Obama administration’s Grow America Act, a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation reauthorization. The proposal would increase federal highway investment by almost $10 billion per year and public transportation investment by nearly $7.5 billion annually from FY 2015-2018.
Read MoreDeficient Bridges Set Off Alarm Bells
An analysis of the 2013 National Bridge Inventory database recently released by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) shows cars, trucks and school buses cross the nation’s more than 63,000 structurally compromised bridges 250 million times every day. The most heavily traveled are on the Interstate system.
Read MoreARTBA Program Advocates for Transportation Issues
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) announced the start-up of the Transportation Investment Advocacy Center (TIAC), a first-of-its kind, dynamic education program and internet-based information resource. The program is aimed at helping private citizens, legislators, organizations and businesses successfully grow transportation infrastructure resources at the state and local levels through the legislative and ballot initiative processes.
Read MoreARTBA Has Message for ConExpo-Con/Agg Attendees
With federal highway and bridge funding to the states in jeopardy later this year, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) is using the March 4-8 ConExpo-Con/Agg trade show in Las Vegas — one of the largest gatherings of U.S. transportation design and construction professionals in the world — to tell members of Congress to fix the Highway Trust…
Read MoreRuane Touts Highway Trust Fund Needs
Fixing the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) without generating any new revenue would require the equivalent of Congress passing and the president signing a 2013-level Murray-Ryan budget deal every year just to maintain current highway and transit program investment levels, American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) President Pete Ruane Feb. 12 told a Senate panel.
Read MoreAssociation Leaders Address SOTU Speech
In President Obama’s State of the Union address on January 28, he linked tax reform and infrastructure investment, a move welcomed by national stakeholders.
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