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June 5 2024 Vol. LXVI • No. 12
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Ardent Company Brings Safety Improvements Along MD 500...8
By Chuck MacDonald USACE Repairing Flood Damage at U.S. Military Academy in N.Y. ...24
FAE Welcomes Dealers to Paving Products Training Session...68
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Government officials and community leaders are excited by a once-in-a-generation project happening a short distance from
Philadelphia’s central core. Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) has reimagined what the future could look like in South and Southwest Philadelphia. They have acquired a huge slice of property —1,300 acres — that was the site of the former PES Refinery are transforming it into an economic engine. “Over the next 10 to 15 years, HRP will lead the development of stateof-the-art e-commerce, innovation and logistics business park,” the company said in a statement. “The Bellwether District will reintegrate this site into the surrounding city with a 750-acre industrial campus and a 250-acre innovation campus to the north. We are expecting this project to generate 19,000 temporary and permanent jobs in Philadelphia.” see PHILLY page 48
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Following this deconstruction phase, James D. Morrissey Inc. of Philadelphia won the bid for the mass earthwork and surface/subsurface demolition.
Is Fed’s Hydrogen Balloon All Hot Air? Clean Energy Programs Need Long Look at Infrastructure, Regulation, Logistics By Lucy Perry CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Biden administration’s clean hydrogen goals are in a state of hurry up and wait. The industry is champing to get started, but there may be too many challenges to advance the president’s dream of buildStock photo ing out the U.S. clean hydrogen industry. The biggest One major hurdle to building out Adobe the clean issue may be the fact that with a possible change in hydrogen industry is the absence of a federal administration next year, one that heavily favors fossil hydrogen production regulation, permitting and see HYDROGEN page 44
siting agency.