The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
(Billings, MT – YPR) – Montana’s Congressional delegation is critical of President Barack Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. (See a map of proposed pipeline here and here.) Senator Max Baucus, D-MT, pledged to continue to fight for approval of the pipeline that would cross Montana from the oil tar sand fields in…
UPDATED WITH STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE: From the White House: Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline Earlier today, I received the Secretary of State’s recommendation on the pending application for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by…
NPR’s got the roundup of news stories on the pipeline’s demise: Several news outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will reject TransCanada’s proposal to run an oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. The Washington Post reports the administration will make it official later today and will allow TransCanada to reapply once it has a…
One of the expenses truckers face is paying to upgrade their rigs to meet new environmental emissions regulations for diesel engines. California has the strictest gasoline emissions regulations in the country. The “smog check” is a consuming ritual known to every Californian. Until very recently, diesel engines on freight trucks – big rigs that haul…
(Billings, MT-YPR) The oil boom in Canada’s Tar Sands field and an oil refinery upgrade brought megaloads–huge shipments of drilling equipment– across Western roads and interstate highways in 2011.
Railroads are laying new track. Customers are buying new rail cars as the Bakken Oil Formation booms. And without the Keystone XL pipeline to move the crude, it’s railroads that are profiting from the haul.
House Republicans unveiled the outlines of a transportation authorization bill Thursday, relying on controversial methods of paying for highways that are already arousing the ire of Democrats.
(Billings, MT-YPR) The developers of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline say they already had included safety measures meant to prevent the type of pipeline break that spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of oil into Montana’s Yellowstone River last month. TransCanada officials are in Montana this week. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would stretch from Alberta’s oil…
TN’s Andrea Bernstein will talk Port Authority tolls hikes on today’s Brian Lehrer Show. Atlanta’s list of transpo projects — which must be finalized for voters — may not meet its deadline. Oil prices are down 20% this year. And want to see rain falling inside a NYC subway station? Video after the jump.
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