Washington, D.C.—Racing against their own legislative clock, House Appropriations subcommittees used voice votes to advance fiscal year 2021 spending bills with robust funding for agencies important to the waterways industry,… Read More
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Washington, D.C.—A key Senate committee voted unanimously to advance its water resources bill to provide roughly $17 billion in new authorization for infrastructure projects, cut red tape and push a… Read More
On March 31, 78 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee requesting that lock and dam projects funded by Inland Waterways Trust… Read More
The necessity of maintaining, renewing and, where necessary, replacing America’s aging lock and dam infrastructure with more modern and efficient structures has been the tireless message of our inland marine… Read More
The Mississippi Valley Trade & Transport Council and The Coal Institute held the annual World Trade & Transport Conference February 20 at the Omni Royal Orleans hotel in New Orleans’… Read More
The executive committee of Waterways Council Inc. announced that it has named WCI senior vice president Deb Calhoun as interim president/CEO, effective February 18. WCI President/CEO Michael J. Toohey recently… Read More
Whatever happened to the “infrastructure president” who posed against a backdrop of working towboats on the Ohio River? Wherever he was, he was nowhere to be found in the administration’s… Read More
Waterways Council Inc. (WCI) announced February 12 that Michael Toohey, president and CEO of the organization since 2011, will retire. “Having turned 71 this month, I believe it is time… Read More
The long impeachment drama is finally over, as the Senate acquitted President Donald Trump of two charges with votes of 52–48 and 53–47, respectively. While the drama has enthralled official… Read More
Washington, D.C.—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a group of her key committee chairmen and freshman lawmakers to try and resuscitate infrastructure as a potential bipartisan issue by announcing a… Read More