The recent hurricanes, floods, wildfires and tornadoes have only underscored the overwhelming task at hand needed to rebuild America's infrastructure.

Those families with their homes still intact -- and who have solar panels -- are not worrying about power outages because of the collapse of our 19th-century technology of stretching...

Amtrak celebrated 40 years as "America's Railroad" on Sunday, May 1, 2011, a celebration that continues on National Train Day this Saturday, May 7th.

Transportation will stay in the limelight as the country celebrates National Transportation Week 2011, May 16th through the 22nd. In the meantime, Congress struggles to hammer...

The Gulf Coast spill is still sloshing oil onto more than 65 miles of shoreline, including Louisiana's nurseries for shrimp, oysters, crabs and fish.

While lawmakers unsuccessfully tried for a third time to increase the size of liability damages facing the companies to $10 billion, Transocean has asked a...

President Obama's inability -- or unwillingness -- to take control of the Gulf Coast oil disaster seems to be part of a larger pattern. Many environmentalists say they feel betrayed by a president they thought would end, or sharply limit, many environmental horrors of the past.

Obama has promised...

The coming weekend is the last chance to get in one of the 392 national parks for free during National Park Week, April 17-25. Normally, 146 parks charge entrance fees ranging from $3 to $25. The annual celebration is designed to encourage people to visit the Parks to "connect with...

On April 15, President Obama visited the swing-vote state of Florida to host a Conference charting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) new vision for America's future in space and "the new technologies, new jobs, and new industries it will create."

"Let me start by being extremely clear,...

Western U.S. supporters of "clean" nuclear power say it means more jobs at uranium mines and mills. But critics say the escalating costs of past uranium facility clean-up, billion-dollar subsidies, and the fact that most of the companies are foreign-owned, has seemingly gone unnoticed.

During the State of the Union...