The federal Highway Trust Fund — the transportation fund that distributes federal gas tax revenue to the states for road construction, mass transit and underground fuel storage tank maintenance — was set to experience a shortfall by the end of August. READ MORE

Every year 38,212 pounds of new minerals must be provided for every person in the United States to make the things we use every day. Remember, if it can't be grown, it must be mined. LEARN MORE

America’s past economic success was built upon infrastructure development. It was in 1806 that Congress appropriated the first funds for a federally funded road that stretched from Maryland to Illinois. Over the next two centuries, the American infrastructure expanded to include 160,000 miles of railway tracks, 12,000 miles of commercially active, navigable waterways, four million [...]