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Editorial

Editorial

- January 2012

H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, is a rare, pragmatic bill that protects aggregate producers, farmers, and other rural businesses from the uncertainty surrounding current and future regulation ...

Editorial

- December 2011

So the President, the House, and the Senate are all talking about the same issue, adequate funding for our nation’s infrastructure. The question is: are any of them listening to ...

Editorial

- November 2011

With aggregate production down nearly 40 percent over the last five years, the industry does not need the EPA to codify an overly broad definition with costs that far exceed ...

Editorial

- October 2011

If the industry were giving government entities a grade card this fall, it would be an interestingly mixed report.

Editorial

- September 2011

A few days of traveling America’s crumbling highways and structurally deficient bridges might convince Congress that this is one area of government spending that can’t afford any further reductions.

Editorial

- August 2011

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From golf courses to parks to wetlands to housing developments, many aggregate operators have found a second life for their properties once mining is complete.

Editorial

- July 2011

Last month, our neighbors to the north brought the concept of green aggregates one step closer to the United States.

Editorial

- June 2011

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The MSHA office is being decentralized with compliance assistance shifting from a national office to regional MSHA offices.

Editorial

- May 2011

Throughout the last several years, many aggregate producers may have been pessimists rather than optimists, but the tide may be turning on the age old question of whether the glass ...

Editorial

- April 2011

Forbes advocated a two-year bill that would allow time to educate Congress as well as for the economy to recover before passing a long-term funding bill.
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