Valerie Yurk

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday issued “urgent recommendations” that the Federal Aviation Administration prohibit helicopters from using the route an Army Blackhawk was taking when it collided with a passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in […]

As President Donald Trump pulls back on green funding, state officials are lobbying Congress to retain those dollars for other infrastructure projects that would be more palatable to the current administration and Republicans, like road and bridge repairs. Republicans negotiating

House Republicans are mulling President Donald Trump’s request for more funding for the struggling air traffic control system as the administration makes major cuts to federal spending, including at the Federal Aviation Administration. A hearing set for Tuesday at the

High-speed rail advocates are betting support for proposed projects through red-leaning districts will be the key to unlocking greater support from skeptical Republicans in Congress. For the bet to pay off, lawmakers would have to supply the funds to reverse

​Rep. Sam Graves doesn’t think “compromise” is a dirty word. That brands the Missouri Republican as “old school,” a term he frequently uses to describe his legislative style. He strays from the limelight despite his perch as head of the

President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday night that he will nominate former Wisconsin congressman and current Fox News contributor Sean Duffy to head the Transportation Department. If confirmed by the Senate, Duffy would head an agenda that Trump asserted will ensure the

Republicans’ incoming Senate majority could stall a repeat effort to boost transportation and infrastructure spending, which had been hiked by billions of dollars in the previous funding cycle. The surface transportation reauthorization bill in 2021 became the so-called bipartisan infrastructure law when $550

Aviation advocates are pushing Congress to modernize the nation’s air traffic control systems, blaming stagnant funding in part for the Federal Aviation Administration’s growing backlog of essential upgrades. According to a government watchdog report, the FAA determined that 105 of

The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized revisions to a lead-in-drinking-water rule that requires water systems to replace service lines containing the toxic metal within 10 years.  Senior White House officials said on a call with reporters that the revisions are “significantly”

Amtrak’s struggle to manage early planning led to delays for a key passenger rail tunnel project that received $4.7 billion in federal funding from the infrastructure law, a government watchdog found. The Frederick Douglass Tunnel program aims to revitalize the