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Mississippi River Shipping
2:54 pm
Sun July 22, 2012

Drought starting to impact shipping along the Mississippi River

Barges pass under the Poplar Street Bridge. (via Wikimedia Commons/ Bachrach44)
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The Drought is starting to severely impact shipping along the Mississippi River as water levels continue to drop.

The region’s shipping companies have had to lighten their loads to keep from running aground and that’s starting to cut into their bottom lines.

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Air Pollution - Diesel
5:46 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Local tugboats to run cleaner with help of federal grant

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Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
The tugboat MSY Dorothy will get cleaner-burning engines this summer, paid for in part by a grant to JB Marine Service, Inc., from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks uses an acetylene torch to help destroy an old tugboat engine, with the help of John Parrentt of JB Marine Service, Inc.
Credit Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio
EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks (left) and JB Marine Service, Inc., CFO David Heyl talk in the engine room of the tugboat Helen Virginia. In the foreground is one of the new, lower-emission engines.
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Some Mississippi River tugboats will be getting an upgrade thanks to a federal grant aimed at reducing air pollution.

The more than $300,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency will go toward new, cleaner-burning diesel engines for the tugboats.

One of those boats was on view this morning at JB Marine Service, Inc., the barge cleaning and repair company that received the EPA grant.

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Transportation needs
5:50 pm
Mon May 14, 2012

State transport panel hears from St. Louis metro region

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Missouri state and local officials are looking for ways to maintain the state’s transportation infrastructure during a climate of limited funds.

The so-called "Blue Ribbon Citizens Committee on Missouri Transportation Needs" met in Chesterfield and will hold similar meetings around the state this spring and summer. 

MoDOT District Engineer Ed Hassinger says the agency has roughly half the money to spend that it did just several years ago.

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