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United Rentals fires back at CARB
Yesterday, we reported on the California Air Resources Board issuing United Rentals a $166,800 fine for violating a law that requires annual smoke tests for diesel fleets and, in conjunction with ARB’s roadside smoke inspection program, ensures all machines are properly maintained, tamper-free and free from excessive smoke emissions.  Raymond J. Alletto, United Rentals’ vice […]
January 11, 2010
Business
AGC chapters awarded clean diesel grants
Those who got down to business earlier this year filing for federal grants to help waylay the costs of outfitting construction fleets with the latest emissions technology are now being rewarded. The Associated General Contractors of America’s Kentucky and western-Pennsylvania chapters received nearly $3 million in grants from the EPA’s National Clean Diesel Funding Assistance Program, […]
January 11, 2010
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Terex may divest of some construction equipment lines
By early 2010 Terex chairman and CEO Ron DeFeo says he will have decided which of the company’s equipment lines he will keep and which will be sold. Key quote from an investors conference: “We’ve never really demonstrated the ability to be meaningfully profitable in this business,” DeFeo said during a JPMorgan investor conference in […]
January 11, 2010
Business
Asphalt mogul to Blagojevich: Help me out with regulators
The political corruption in Illinois has now trickled down into the construction industry. Michael Vondra, a construction mogul and top dog in the asphalt industry, allegedly asked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to help him with environmental regulators on a new business deal he’s working on with BP, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times. […]
January 11, 2010
Business
LEED-built hotel opens in Michigan
The Hyatt hotel chain just opened it’s first LEED-built hotel in Wyoming, Michigan. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and if you’re in the commercial building business or subcontract to a general contractor in commercial building, take note. In a nutshell, the LEED program is a series of credits you earn by […]
January 11, 2010
Business
Green technology pounded by recession
There is a certain cadre in the environmental movement that would like nothing better than for the whole industrial world to plunge back into the 19th Century, where everyone farmed with mules and lit their homes with whale oil lamps. So it’s ironic that the current recession, rather than driving us backwards into a more […]
January 11, 2010
Business
Economic report: It’s going to get worse before it gets better
There’s always the good news and the bad news, right? Well, we were delivered the good news first. President Barack Obama allocated $48 billion for infrastructure, money that will surely help put the construction industry back to work and jumpstart the economy. Now it’s time for the bad news. Despite this boon to our industry, […]
January 11, 2010
Business
EPA halts mountaintop mining permits
As many as 200 surface mining permits may be in jeopardy after the Environmental Protection Agency’s top administrator Lisa Jackson asked for a more thorough review of the environmental impact of such practices. The Appalachian coal industry thought it had the go ahead last month when an appeals court overturned a ruling requiring more thorough […]
January 11, 2010
Business
EPA declares carbon dioxide a danger
We knew this was coming. Now the only debate is whether the EPA will get authority to write the regulations governing the amount of carbon dioxide any business, equipment or vehicle can emit, or whether congress will write it’s own cap-and-trade style regulations. Congress has authority to take the lead. Either way you can bet […]
January 11, 2010
Business
Killing coal, tilting at windmills
Despite ever increasing electricity demands, there’s a huge slowdown in the construction of coal fired power plants–nine just this year, enough to provide electricity to 5-million homes. With Bush out of office and Obama in, environmentalists are winning this battle, but who is losing? Even though the science on global warming is far from certain, […]
January 10, 2010
Business
Cleanest coal plants in the world: China
The cleanest and most high tech coal powered electricity plants are being built today in China, of all places, at the rate of one a month. Of course, China’s stimulus program seems to be working better than ours, and China is providing plenty of help to its small business rather than those “too big to […]
January 10, 2010
Business
Clean coal opportunities squandered by politics
The New York Times today has a good summation of how badly national politics mangles the public’s desire for a cleaner environment.The subject is clean coal, or coal gasification plants. The technology is proven, the designs ready to build, but squabbles over which state, Republican or Democrat, and environmental delusions have stalled implementation.  Coal gasification […]
January 10, 2010
Business
California truck fleet funding available
Small California-based fleets needing assistance in replacing their older, heavy-duty diesel trucks with new trucks can find solace in the California Air Resources Board’s Voucher Incentive Program.  The program, also known as VIP, has $15 million in available funding, open to any small business owner for heavy-duty truck replacements statewide. Between $30,000 and $35,000 […]
January 10, 2010
Business
$1 a gallon gas next year?
That’s what the CEO of Gulf OIl is predicting.
January 10, 2010
Business
The promise of geothermal
One of the most promising energy saving technologies around is geothermal. The process simply exploits the difference between the temperature of the air and the relatively constant temperatures found underground. You pipe the coolant for hundreds of yards underground and return it to your building much warmer or cooler than it left. The biggest obstacle in […]
January 10, 2010
Business
Shovels ready for nation’s first clean coal plant
Thanks to a boost from the stimulus bill, Duke Energy is about to start construction soon on our nation’s first environmentally-friendly clean coal plant. Environmentalists hate coal, because of the carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere. But it provides about half of our electricity and even more in China and the developing world. If […]
January 10, 2010
Business
Kansas gets real on coal-fired power plants
Now that its governor Kathleen Sebelius has been booted upstairs to become the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kansas is finally getting down to business and building one of two proposed coal fired plants in the western part of the state. The Associated Press article at the link details the compromises made, but […]
January 10, 2010
Business
Exxon bets big on natural gas
With the announcement of the $31 billion purchase of natural gas producer XTO Energy, Exxon left no doubt where it thinks the future of energy is headed. While natural gas prices are in the tank right now, this is still good news on every front. The United States is the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, […]
January 10, 2010
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