Thu August 20, 2015
TERP?Charges on Non-Road Diesel Equipment to Drop 25 Percent in Texas
New legislation from the 2015 84th Texas Legislative Session will reduce the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) fees on the purchase or lease of non-road equipment, beginning Sept. 1, 2015. The TERP fee reduction will make buying and renting heavy equipment more affordable for all customers....
David A. Lieb - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu August 20, 2015
States Raising Taxes, Fees, Debt to Pay for Road Repairs
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) While Congress remains stalled on a long-term plan for funding highways, state lawmakers and governors aren’t waiting around. Nearly one-third of the states have approved measures this year that could collectively raise billions of dollars through higher fuel taxes, vehicle fees and bonds to repair old bridges and roads and relieve traffic congestion, according to an analysis by The Associated Press....
Teresa Cerojano And Joe Mcdonald - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu August 20, 2015
Asia’s ’Infrastructure Gap’ Threatens to Hamper Growth
MANILA, Philippines (AP) Looking out at bumper-to-bumper Monday morning traffic crawling along the Philippine capital’s main avenue, taxi driver Ranilo Banez shook his head in frustration. Congestion has gotten so bad as the economy grew, he said, that a 6 mi....
Chris Pokornowski - Wed August 19, 2015
Towmaster Joins ’I Make America’ in D.C.
“In April, my employer, Towmaster Inc. based in Litchfield, Minnesota, sent me to Washington D.C., to join my counterparts on the ’I Make America’ advisory committee. I Make America is a campaign started by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) in 2010 as a domestic public policy advocacy platform....
Talli Nauman - NATIVE SUN NEWS HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT EDITOR - Tue August 18, 2015
Is Keystone XL Trampling Sioux Treaty Rights?
While the world waited for South Dakota’s pivotal decision on TransCanada Corp.’s application to renew its Keystone XL tar-sands crude-oil pipeline permit, tribal members capped nine days of hearings Aug....
Mon August 17, 2015
Ohio Implements New Standards for Drillers in State
CANTON (AP) Ohio drillers will now have new state standards to operate under for the construction of horizontal-well pads and access roads. According to the Canton Repository, the rules took effect on July 14 after nearly two years of development....
Mark Gillispie - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon August 17, 2015
Company Wages Court Battles to Finish Pipeline Surveys
CLEVELAND (AP) The company planning to build an industrial-sized natural gas pipeline across northern Ohio has been waging and mostly winning court battles to allow surveyors onto people’s property to determine a preferred route that will be submitted to a federal agency for approval....
Fri August 14, 2015
ASA Files Brief in Major Insurance Case
The American Subcontractors Association, ASA of Texas, and other key construction industry organizations on July 31 filed an amici curiae brief in another major construction insurance coverage case that has percolated through the court system....
Alanna Durkin - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed August 12, 2015
Plans Move Forward on New England’s Largest Wind Farm
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A Texas company is pushing forward with an effort to build a massive wind power project in Aroostook County that would be the largest of its kind in New England. EDP Renewables, which recently submitted its application to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, needs to get the green light from the state before it can begin building the 250-megawatt wind project in northern Maine that could power roughly 70,000 homes....
Stephen Singer - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed August 12, 2015
Dredged Materials Dumped Into Long Island Sound Spur Debate
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A long-simmering dispute over dumping dredged materials from rivers and harbors into Long Island Sound has flared up again with a new federal plan to govern disposal sites. Connecticut backs the disposal of materials in designated areas while New York state and environmental activists are calling for the reuse of sediments....
