by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 28, 2015 | Transportation
WASHINGTON — As Congress barrels toward a Friday deadline to fund the nation’s highway system, transportation experts across the country are responding to ever-tighter budgets with simple but significant cost-saving changes. In Texas, federal funding makes up about a...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 27, 2015 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As Congress navigates another last-minute scramble to approve funding for the nation’s highways ahead of a July 31 deadline, engineers far-removed from the Capitol Hill gridlock are hard at work improving the stuff that sustains our nation’s roads and...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 16, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON— U.S. The nation’s security and environmental safety are at risk because of vulnerabilities in existing pipelines, railways and other infrastructure that could cost at least $13 billion to fix, a top Energy Department official said Tuesday. Melanie...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 13, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Texas lawmakers Gene Green and Joe Barton went head-to-head Thursday on a bill that would lift a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. It was imposed to alleviate energy scarcity during the OPEC oil embargo. “We have repealed every bit of that...
by Phoebe Tollefson | Jul 9, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Army’s planned reduction of 40,000 troops by late 2017 will neither hurt the force’s threat readiness nor cut a sizable amount from the $500 billion defense budget, experts and a military spokesman said. The Army’s savings from...
