Government

Albany Times Union - Mon December 05, 2022

Construction Gets Going On $4.5B Underground Power Line From Quebec to NYC

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was in the Washington County village of Whitehall Nov. 30 to announce the start of construction on a 339-mi.-long underground transmission line that will bring clean power from Quebec's hydroelectric plants to New York City....

Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed November 30, 2022

Infrastructure Bill … One Year Later

Mid-November marked the end of year one of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), and ARTBA reviewed U.S. Treasury Department data on new project starts spawned by the bill. The road and bridge construction association reports that 29,000 new projects were supported by $53.5 billion in highway and bridge formula funds leveraged at the state level....

NTEA - Mon November 21, 2022

NTEA Supports U.S. Senate Catalytic Converter Anti-Theft Legislation

NTEA — The Association for the Work Truck Industry announced support for legislation to combat the rise in catalytic converter theft. The Preventing Auto Recycling Theft (PART) Act (Senate Bill 5024) — introduced by U.S....

Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu November 17, 2022

Maryland Officials Announce U.S. 219 Funding in Garrett County

As part of a four-day scheduled visit to the western part of the state, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan stopped in Grantsville on Oct. 17 to announce $77 million in funding that will complete the remaining 8-mi....

General Services Administration - Tue October 11, 2022

GSA Administrator Highlights 'Buy Clean' Progress in Ohio

On Sept. 15, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Robin Carnahan joined White House officials and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in Ohio to highlight the Biden-Harris Administration's Buy Clean Initiative....

Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu October 06, 2022

Buy Clean Initiative: Interagency Task Force Readies to Issue Instructions

Instructions for integrating President Joe Biden's Buy Clean Initiative are on the way, compliments of an interagency task force overseeing the procurement program. Agencies will receive the instructions, which prioritize the purchase of steel, concrete, asphalt and flat glass that feature lower emission levels in their manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal....

llinois Association of Aggregate Producers - Tue August 30, 2022

TFIC Releases Its Analysis of IDOT's New Six-Year Plan

The Transportation for Illinois Coalition (TFIC) has developed an analysis of the FY2023-2028 Multi-Year Plan (MYP) for state road construction, released by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and IDOT. The plan calls for an investment of $24.6 billion in Illinois roads and bridges over the six-year period (last year's MYP totaled $20.7 billion)....

DCR Technologies - Mon August 29, 2022

Learn What Your Dealership Needs to Do to Be Ready for New Federal Regulations

As of Dec. 9, 2022, most dealerships will be expected to be compliant with new federal regulations for managing and protecting customers' financing information. After the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) updated the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information rule under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), financial institutions, which includes dealers, are mandated to strengthen their customer information security to meet minimum requirements to protect customer financial information....

Office of Senator Sherrod Brown - Tue August 16, 2022

Ohio Will Receive More Than $52M for Projects

On Aug. 9, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced the Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded more than $52 million for various Ohio infrastructure projects through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Transportation Discretionary Grants program, which was scaled up in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that Brown helped write and pass last year....

ABC 13 - Tue August 09, 2022

Senate Approves $31 Billion Solution for Ike Dike Flooding

The U.S. Senate recently approved a bill that would authorize federal agencies to plan for an estimated $31 billion project intended to protect the Texas coast from hurricanes. Hundreds of millions of dollars have already gone into studying the idea to build a system of concrete gate barriers at the mouth of Galveston Bay....