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16 states file suit challenging pause on LNG export permits

Led by Louisiana General Attorney General Liz Murrill, the attorneys general of 16 states have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Louisiana challenging the pause on pending approvals of LNG export projects announced by the Biden administration in January.

Attorney General Murrill calls that move an “unlawful decision to ban new liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.”

The State of Louisiana is joined in the suit by the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida,...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/16-states-file-suit-challenging-pause-on-lng-export-permits/

FreightWaves Classics: Completion of I-80 celebrated in Nebraska

The Archway, near Kearney, Nebraska. (Photo: coloradotravelingducks.com)

Planning for the Interstate Highway System (IHS) was begun in the 1930s. However, World War II and the Korean War meant that very little was done for several years. As outlined in a recent FreightWaves article about President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the IHS was authorized and funded in 1956. Construction, reconstruction and expansion of the IHS has been going on ever since.    

Forty-seven years ago (October 19, 1974) a ceremony took place to celebrate the completion of the last segment of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-completion-of-i-80-celebrated-in-nebraska

FreightWaves Classics: First Transcontinental Motor Convoy crosses Nebraska

One of many mishaps along the route of the convoy. (Photo: Lincoln Highway Association)

Background

In an earlier FreightWaves Classics article, information about the U.S. Army’s First Transcontinental Motor Convoy was provided, and then-U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s participation was highlighted. 

Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower posed for a photograph during the convoy. (Photo: National Archives)Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower posed for a photograph during the convoy. (Photo: National Archives)

Decades later, the U.S. Interstate Highway System would be named the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways because of his advocacy for the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-first-transcontinental-motor-convoy-crosses-nebraska

Nebraska officials want answers on blocked rail crossings

A photograph of a train at a railroad crossing.

Nebraska officials are preparing to ask BNSF (NYSE: BRK), Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) and the Nebraska Central Railroad to take more action against blocked highway-rail grade crossings in Grand Island in Hall County.

The transportation department within the Nebraska Public Service Commission plans to file a formal complaint against the three railroads for violating Commission Rule 002.09D. State officials will give the railroads 20 days to respond before taking any additional action.

The filing...

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