ARTBA Supports Proposal Limiting EPA Groundwater Oversight
By Nick Goldstein, vice president of regulatory & legal issues, ARTBA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) April 23 proposed not to expand Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction to include discharges into subsurface groundwater. Recent federal court...
read more‘Playbook’ Offers Tips for Highway Construction Workforce Recruitment
By Mark Holan, editorial director, ARTBA A government and private industry effort to bolster highway construction employment is pivoting from a dozen pilot projects to a Highway Construction Workforce Partnership (HCWP) network aided by a “playbook” of best practices....
read moreU.S. DOT Opens BUILD Grants, Offers Application Webinars
By Mark Holan, editorial director, ARTBA The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking applications for the Fiscal Year 2019 Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program. A total of $900 million in funding...
read moreAASHTO, ACEC & APTA Leaders Featured at Federal Issues Program
Top: David Bauer and Linda Bauer Darr. Bottom: Paul Skoutelas, left, and Jim Tymon. By Mark Holan, editorial director, ARTBA A panel of four transportation industry association executives is one of the focal points of this year’s ARTBA Federal Issues Program (FIP)...
read moreARTBA’s Dave Bauer, in Washington Post Op-Ed, Urges Infrastructure Investment
ARTBA President and CEO Dave Bauer wrote the op-ed, below, which was published in the April 21 issue of The Washington Post. Above, inside the "corroded carcass" of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Photo: Federal Highway Administration. By David C. Bauer If placed end...
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