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Look who’s lobbying for a gas tax hike: the nation’s biggest business lobby (WaPo) State DOTs don’t like the suggestion that their stimulus spending is less than fabulous (AP) A lengthy profile of Randal O’Toole, anti-transit crusader (Greenwire) LaHood says private investment in roads could lag behind high-speed rail (Reuters) Sen. Barrasso (R-WY) is becoming … Continued

By Elana Schor

8:10 AM EDT on July 16, 2009

Look who’s lobbying for a gas tax hike: the nation’s biggest business lobby (WaPo)
State DOTs don’t like the suggestion that their stimulus spending is less than fabulous (AP)
A lengthy profile of Randal O’Toole, anti-transit crusader (Greenwire)
LaHood says private investment in roads could lag behind high-speed rail (Reuters)
Sen. Barrasso (R-WY) is becoming known as the thorn in the side of the enviro committee (Greenwire)

Elana Schor

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