Per Capita Mineral Use
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
BOXER RELEASES SENATE TRANSPORTATION BILL
Leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a bipartisan, six-year surface transportation bill May 12 that would maintain spending on federal-aid highways at current levels plus inflation. The $252 billion bill would authorize new spending on freight programs, add award grants for states’ best practices that save time and costs, and maintain [...]
Why Transportation Infrastructure Matters
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 [...]