May 19, 2015 – The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) and its partners in the Transportation Construction Coalition are pushing for a permanent Highway Trust Fund funding solution and passage of a multi-year surface transportation bill. As part of this effort, a new online petition was created calling on key congressional leaders to get the job done as soon as possible.…
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Guest Editorial: Congress Falls Short on ’16 Transportation Budget Resolution
Just about any driver who has hit a pothole or sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic knows that our nation’s roads, bridges and highways are in bad shape. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives our nation’s roads a D+ grade. There are 10,000 bridges in the U.S. that are so old that they qualify for Medicare and, yet, are still bearing…
Read MoreIndustry’s Young Leaders Meet in Florida
The industry’s future leaders met in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., April 30-May 2, for the annual National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) Young Leaders Meeting. This year set a (non-reunion) year record with 175 attendees – 41 of which were first-timers. The event was kicked off with an impressive tour of the Cemex Miami cement plant – a highlight for many, including…
Read MoreHighway Program Extension Looming
With only four legislative days left before the May 31 highway program extension deadline, both chambers of Congress May 15 laid the ground work for a two-month extension of the Highway Trust Fund contract authority and expenditure authority, according to the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA). Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and Tom Carper (D-Del.), proposed legislation, S. 1350,…
Read MoreJohnson Hammers Congress on Possible Transportation Cuts
National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) President and CEO Michael W. Johnson urged Congress to rethink a proposed 22 percent cut to federal transportation projects contained in a recently passed federal spending blueprint. While Johnson acknowledged that the budget resolution passed May 5 is, fortunately, only a non-binding outline for federal spending, he pointed out that the proposed cuts…
Read MoreNSSGA Talks Regulatory Burden with Congress
The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) shared comments with the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Reform in response to a request from Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), ranking committee Democrat Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs & Federal Management Subcommittee Chairman James Lankford (R-Okla.), and ranking subcommittee Democrat Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), for a review that…
Read MoreCoker Honored With Young Leaders’ Mark S. Walsh Award
Dennis Coker, vice president, aggregates, of Natural Resource Partners LLC, was named the winner of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association’s 2015 Mark S. Walsh Award, presented at this year’s Young Leaders Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The award was sponsored by Rock Products. “It is definitely an honor to be considered in the same group as previous Mark S. Walsh Award winners…
Read MoreThe Best of the Young Leaders
April 30, 2015 – At the NSSGA Young Leaders Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Dennis Coker of Natural Resource Partners was named the winner of the 2015 Mark S. Walsh Leadership Award. The award was sponsored by Rock Products and presented by National Sales Director Sean Carr. “We are very pleased to present Dennis with this award,” Carr said. “The Young Leaders are…
Read MoreHouse Appropriations Committee Unveils Transportation Bill
The House Appropriations Committee released the text of its draft appropriations bill for the U.S. DOT for fiscal year 2016, according to the National Stone Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA). This legislation authorizes the highway program at $40.3 billion, the same amount as the last three years. Without more revenue going into the Highway Trust Fund, spending is limited to…
Read MoreRock Products to Sponsor Young Leaders Award
April 23, 2015 – The NSSGA Young Leaders annual conference is April 29-May 2 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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