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....
Thu August 06, 2015
Nearly $22M Awarded to 86 Projects Under Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
Caltrans recently announced that 86 more local projects that improve public transportation and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions were issued funding from the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program. This program is one of the strategies the state is employing to meet its ambitious goals to address climate change, and specifically prioritizes projects that will serve disadvantaged communities....
Thu August 06, 2015
CTC Allocates $561M to Upgrade State, Local Infrastructure
The California Transportation Commission (CTC) has allocated $561 million to 125 transportation projects that will help rebuild and maintain California’s infrastructure, as well as encourage and support the use of alternate forms of transportation, such as bicycling and walking....
Thu August 06, 2015
Brown’s New Tunnels Plan Ratchets Back Habitat Restoration
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The latest version of Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to build two giant tunnels ferrying water across California locks in just 15,600 acres for habitat restoration, one-sixth of that committed under Brown’s original tunnels proposal, state officials confirmed....
Mon August 03, 2015
Illinois Tollway Awards Over $166M in Construction, Engineering Contracts
The Illinois Tollway board of directors approved three new construction contracts totaling $59.4 million and five new engineering contracts totaling nearly $107 million at its July meeting. More than $775 million in construction and engineering contracts have been approved by the Tollway board so far in 2015, as part of the fourth year of the 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future....
ERICA WERNER and JOAN LOWY - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Thu July 30, 2015
Fighting Over Highway Funding May Lead to Another Short-Term Fix
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators overruled heated conservative opposition Monday and added a measure reviving the federal Export-Import Bank to must-pass highway legislation. But House Republicans declared the Senate transportation bill dead on arrival....
Thu July 30, 2015
What’s in the 6-Year Senate Transportation Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is moving toward the likely passage this week of a sweeping, six-year transportation bill, but the House is putting off consideration of the measure until this fall. With a Friday deadline to prevent a cutoff of highway and transit aid to states, House and Senate Republican leaders say they will also pass an $8 billion short-term bill to shore up the federal Highway Trust Fund through late October....
