On February 25, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by Justice.
LeHuray Retires, Riggs Hired at PCTC
For years the Pavement Coatings Technology Council (PCTC) has given a voice to the pavement maintenance industry. Speaking on behalf of contractors and manufacturers all over the country, the council raises awareness and provides education through meetings, research and development, training, seminars, communications, publications and other programs and activities. At the end of 2020, Pavement Hall of Fame inductee Anne LeHuray retired from the Pavement Coatings Technology Council (PCTC) after serving as president for 12 years.
LeHuray will be replaced by Brian Riggs. Riggs has 20 years of experience in association management and hopes to bring this experience to help the PCTC advance their mission through awareness.
Pavement recognizes 13 individuals and companies who have enhanced the pavement maintenance industry.
February 15, 2021
For the past six years,
Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction has recognized individuals and companies who have enhanced the paving and pavement maintenance industry through their pursuit of excellence, professionalism, dedication to education and adoption to technology.
The
Pavement staff and Advisory Board evaluate each nomination and is pleased to present the 2021 award winners.
Pavement’s February issue will profile these industry winners and a virtual award ceremony will take place.
Please join us as we congratulate these industry leaders!
Contractor of the Year
ACI Asphalt & Concrete, Maple Grove, MN
PCTC s Quest to Obtain USGS Data
PCTC remains hopeful during oral arguments in Pavement Coatings Technology Council (PCTC) v. United States Geological Survey (USGS)
December 28, 2020
PCTC
On December 14, 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments in Pavement Coatings Technology Council (PCTC) v. United States Geological Survey (USGS), the lawsuit concerning PCTC’s painfully long and winding effort to obtain data underlying USGS publications about the fate of sealcoat in the environment. PCTC filed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that is contested in the judicial appeal in April 2011. That was just 2.5 years after PCTC re-organized from its previous structure as a university-based product research center to Washington-based trade association. The USGS’s “studies” precipitated the change because activists (including USGS and municipal employees) began a campaign/crusade urging local communities across the country to prohi