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Business

Opinion: If Obama wants job growth, he should start by asking the EPA to calculate how many jobs they’ve destroyed

The president spent an hour last week giving a speech detailing yet another jobs program. During the last election cycle we were promised a new era of green jobs facilitated by the hand of government. Now it’s “infrastructure,” he says. That’s where the jobs are! Obama’s been talking about infrastructure for six years now and […]

July 31, 2013

Equipment

Opinion: Why I write about Global Warming on a construction equipment site

A reader from Europe recently asked why I spend a lot of time blogging about global warming and other such environmental topics, as this is a website primarily dedicated to heavy equipment and construction. Since his was a reasonable and well written letter, I did not immediately trash it as one has to with most […]

July 17, 2013

Roadbuilding

Supreme Court passes on hearing challenge of EPA’s E15 approval

The Supreme Court last week declined to hear a challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) November approval of E15, a gasoline that contains up to 15 percent ethanol, our sister site, Equipment World, reported. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and other organizations challenged a lower court’s decision to uphold the EPA’s approval of E15. […]

July 2, 2013

Construction Equipment

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge of EPA’s approval of E15

Lost in the shuffle of much bigger headlines last week was the Supreme Court’s decision to pass on hearing a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s November approval of E15. E15 is gasoline that contains up 15 percent ethanol and is fairly controversial. Right now, most service stations use gasoline blended with up 10 percent ethanol. […]

July 2, 2013

Roadbuilding

EPA extends comment period on Tier 3 gas fuel rulemaking

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the public comment period on its Tier 3 proposed rulemaking by 18 days, The Hill reported. The original comment period was set to end June 13. The extension has moved the public comment deadline to July 1. The EPA extended the comment period following complaints from critics that […]

May 29, 2013

Equipment

Greening of the Fleet: Emissions from heavy trucks, off-road equipment down 95% (INFOGRAPHIC)

April 22, 2013

Roadbuilding

EPA ignites frustration in oil industry with Tier 3 rulemaking

On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continued with its Tier 3 rulemaking. The decision imposes new vehicle emissions and fuel standards, requiring reductions in sulfur levels in gasoline to an average of 10 parts per million–70 percent less than today’s levels. The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) questions whether the new standard will […]

April 1, 2013

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks

How highway grants affect the economy, top states for traffic congestion, “smart” garbage cans, and more industry news items are featured.

January 10, 2013

Equipment

EPA Administrator resigns

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced recently that she is stepping down, the Associated Press reports. Jackson, 50, served in the EPA’s top role for four years where she faced what EPA chiefs have said is the strongest opposition they had ever seen. Jackson did not give a reason for her departure and President Barack Obama […]

December 31, 2012

Equipment

Global warming: the ultimate conspiracy theory?

If I were to ever concoct the perfect conspiracy theory it would involve something nobody could control (like the weather), be blamed on something people hate (too many cars) and be prophesied by a group of group of mysterious priests whom everybody respects, but nobody understands (scientists). Dang it, global warming theorists beat me to […]

December 26, 2012

Roadbuilding

Road Science

Calculators help predict the environmental impacts of roadbuilding projects.

December 1, 2012

Equipment Experts

The inner-workings of Komatsu’s Tier 4 Interim engines

Physics and chemistry dictate that most Tier 4 Interim engines follow a common design formula to reduce emissions. Above 75 horsepower most manufacturers have increased fuel injection pressures, boosted turbos, ramped up exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) rates and added aftertreatment that traps or burns off what the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t want going out the […]

November 1, 2012