Courtesy of LA Times by Kathleen Hennessey: The Obama administration on Friday issued a travel advisory: Due to a budget standoff in Washington, flights will be delayed. That was the message Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood delivered at the daily White House briefing, as he outlined the impact across-the-board budget cuts will have on air travel. […]
Courtesy of TribLive by Adam Smeltz: The once-distant concept of energy independence, given a national spotlight in the 2012 presidential race, is closer to becoming a reality on a regional level, energy analysts say. Pennsylvanians rely on in-state sources for at least 64 percent of their energy, a relatively high figure among states, according to […]
In early February of this year, California Governor Brown celebrated the deployment of 100 zero-emission, California-made delivery vehicles. The landmark event recognized one of the world’s largest deployments of zero-emission commercial trucks, which are cleaning the air and saving fuel costs in communities throughout the state – including San Bernardino, Ceres, Fresno, Bakersfield and Sacramento, […]
Courtesy of LA Times by Kathleen Hennessey: The Obama administration on Friday issued a travel advisory: Due to a budget standoff in Washington, flights will be delayed. That was the message Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood delivered at the daily White House briefing, as he outlined the impact across-the-board budget cuts will have on air travel. […]
Courtesy of The Times of Israel: Leave it to Israel to infuse high technology into something as prosaic as asphalt. A Negev company has developed a road asphalt compound that uses old tires for strength and safety, and is friendly to the environment to boot. The new compound, called RuBind, is already in use in […]
Courtesy Logistics Manager, by Jeff Berman, Group News Editor: Investments by Class I railroads are expected to be significant again in 2013, according to recently released data by the Association of American Railroads (AAR). The AAR said that the seven North American-based Class I railroads plan to invest an estimated $24.5 billion in 2013 “to […]
