FRA Takes Applications for $73M in Grants to Rail Capital Projects, Operating Assistance
The Federal Railroad Administration said it is taking applications over the next few months for about $73 million in grant funding under two programs "for projects that can strengthen intercity passenger rail, support capital projects and boost safety initiatives that may include the implementation of positive train control, improved highway-rail grade crossings and congestion mitigation." Congress authorized the grants in the 2015 Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act and funded them l...
EPA Awards Millions in Grants to Ports, Transit Operations, Others to Cut Diesel Emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded millions of dollars in grants this month to ports, transit operators and other agencies across the country to help remove old diesel engines from heavy trucks, buses, ferries and other transportation equipment to replace them with cleaner-burning, newer models. The awards included more than $2.6 million to reduce emissions from cargo trucks and ferries in the New York City area, most of that going to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...
State DOTs Urge Congress to Move Project Funding Via Highway, Transit Formulas
The organization representing all state departments of transportation has called on Congress to route new infrastructure appropriations through existing formula-based federal highway and transit programs, and warned against allocating it through discretionary grants. Using the formula funding systems in the Highway Trust Fund would be "a predictable, equitable, and nationwide distribution of federal dollars" and benefit "urban and rural areas alike," the American Association of State Highway...
Monroe Environmental Opens Texas Office
HOUSTON - Monroe Environmental Corp. has officially opened its new office location in Houston, TX. The office will serve as the company's hub in the gulf coast region, providing engineering, sales, and service support to Monroe's many customers both existing and new. The office address is 110 Cypress Station Drive, Suite 135, Houston, TX 77090. Monroe has many successful installations in Texas, Louisiana, and the surrounding area including ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, Shell, Flint Hills Re...
Vibrating RO Membrane System Solves Leachate Problem for Colombian Landfill
EMERYVILLE, Calif.- In the lush Southwestern highlands of Colombia sits the picturesque Cauca Valley. The verdant landscape is owed to its ample rainfall, which at nearly forty inches per year rivals that of Seattle. And in the town of Yotoco lies the Colomba El Guabal Landfill, which receives most of its 2,000 tons of solid waste per day from Cali, a city of 2.4 million people about thirty-five miles to the south. Managing a landfill in a bucolic setting with high rainfall is extremely chall...
Caltrans Distributes $173.4M in State Grants to Local Transportation Agencies
The California Department of Transportation said it has awarded $173.4 million in the first round of Local Partnership Program grants funded through last year's Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. Caltrans said Feb. 5 that the California Transportation Commission approved funding for 57 projects submitted by 32 local and regional agencies with voter-approved transportation fees or taxes in place. "These grants will act as matching funds for local entities that have already chosen t...
Louisiana to Tap $600M in GARVEE Bonds to Build Major Highway Projects in Three Areas
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson said they would seek $600 million in federal Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle (GARVEE) bonds to build four major road and bridge projects that have been in the state's transportation master plan for decades. They said Jan. 29 that Louisiana would begin the administrative process to request the bonds, consistent with state law. Those types of bonds borrow against expected future state allo...
Commissioner Burman of New York to Lead NARUC Committee on Gas
WASHINGTON—Commissioner Diane X. Burman, of the New York State Public Service Commission, has been appointed as chairman of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Committee on Gas. Burman served previously as co-vice chair. In addition to the Committee on Gas, Burman is a member of the NARUC Board of Directors, the Committee on Critical Infrastructure and NARUC’s Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety. She also serves on the Gas Technology Institute Public Interest Advisory Com...
KAI Design & Build Expands Marketing Department with New Director of Marketing, Senior Marketing Coordinator and Promotions
St. Louis, MO: KAI Design & Build has expanded its Marketing Department with the addition of new hire Daniel Poole as Director of Marketing and Michelle Gray as Senior Marketing Coordinator. Ashley Mensinger and Kristina Glassl were also promoted within the department. New Hires Daniel Poole, Director of Marketing - Poole has seven years of marketing and public relations experience, having previously led content marketing strategy for a Webster Groves, MO-based engineering firm. In his ne...
Carmen Turner: A Pioneer for Public Transit
In 1983, Carmen E. Turner made history as the first African-American woman to lead a major transit agency when she became general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Her appointment to this position also reflected the overall strides being made by women at the time when it came to assuming key leadership roles in U.S. transportation. Turner was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, but grew up in the nation’s capital. She began her government career in administrat...
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