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Soy boom revives Amazon highway
2016-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The BR-163 highway, an old dream of the Brazilian military to colonise the Amazon jungle, was revived by agroexporters as part of a plan aimed at cutting costs by shipping soy out of river ports. But the improvement of the road has accentuated problems such as deforestation and land tenure, and is fuelling new social conflicts. The 350-km stretch of road between the cities of Miritituba and Santarem in the northern Brazilian state of Pará look nothing like the popular image of a lush Amazon rainforest,...
Highway Law, Acquisitions, Technology Highlight a Historic Year in Trucking
2015-12-29 06:25:26| Trucking - Topix.net
Historians may look back at 2015 as the most important year for the U.S. trucking industry since deregulation in 1980. In some cases, history was made by the federal government for finally making good on agenda items years in the making, including long-term highway funding legislation and a final rule mandating use of electronic logs.
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Wildfire burns 1,200 acres outside Los Angeles, closes highway
2015-12-27 04:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters on Saturday gained the upper hand on a wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that burned about 1,240 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations, fire officials said. Hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze in the Solimar Beach area of Ventura County and were able to draw containment lines around 60 percent of the conflagration by Saturday evening, county fire officials said. The flames triggered the closure of parts of U.S. Highway 101,...
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South San Francisco: Motorist dies in crash exiting Highway 101
2015-12-19 03:31:31| Railroads - Topix.net
One person died when a speeding truck exiting Highway 101 collided with fence and a tree then burst into flames, Union Pacific Railroad officials reported. Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, a Dodge Ram pickup truck going about 100 mph exited the freeway near East Grand Avenue, spokesman Francisco Castillo said.
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NEMA welcomes final passage of highway bill.
2015-12-08 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
NEMA welcomed passage of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which supports wider deployment of intelligent transportation systems and electric vehicle charging systems on nation’s highways, addresses need to move freight more efficiently, reauthorizes federal Export-Import Bank, and takes steps to improve security of the electrical infrastructure. Core provision is a 5-year authorization of federal surface transportation programs, including highways, rail, and transit.
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