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® June 12 2024 Vol. XXXVI • No. 12
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Charles Blalock & Sons Work On TDOT Project By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Renovations Begin in 2025 On Historic Chattanooga Bridge...8
Liebherr Highlights 75 Years at Family Day in Newport News, Va. ...22
FAE Hosts Factory Reps at Paving Products Training Session...38
A stretch of Tennessee highway — in a place perhaps best known for the famous country musicians born there — is currently undergoing a $51 million construction project to widen the highway over a span of 5.34 mi. The widening project of SR 133 (Maynardville Highway) will run from the Knox County Line to just south of SR144 in Maynardville. SR 33 serves as a critical connection route from Knoxville through Maynardville, according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT). “The purpose of widening SR 33 is to create a safer and more efficient route by improving traffic flow and increasing the roadway’s capacity. In its current configuration, SR 33 approaching Union County from Knoxville reduces from five lanes to two lanes until entering Maynardville. After this project is complete, the whole route from the Knox/Union County line to Maynardville will consist of four travel lanes with a center turn lane,” TDOT said. Proposed improvements to SR 33 were first initiated nearly three decades ago. see TDOT page 42
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The widening project of SR 133 (Maynardville Highway) will run from the Knox County Line to just south of SR144 in Maynardville.
Is Fed’s Hydrogen Balloon All Hot Air? Clean Energy Programs Need Long Look at Infrastructure, Regulation, Logistics By Lucy Perry
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 building out the U.S. clean hydrogen industry. The biggest issue may be the fact that with a possible change in administration next year, one that heavily favors fossil fuels, all progress may be reversed.
CEG CORRESPONDENT
see HYDROGEN page 58
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One major hurdle to building out the clean hydrogen industry is the absence of a federal hydrogen production regulation, permitting and siting agency.