IAMC News Briefs—Week of April 17, 2023
By John Salustri
APPLE.COM NEWSROOM—Apple has doubled down on its commitment to using recycled products, including a 2025 target to “use 100% recycled cobalt” in all Apple-designed batteries. Also, by 2025, magnets in all its devices will use entirely recycled rare earth materials. Printed circuit boards will also get the recycling once-over, with 100% recycled tin for soldering and gold for plating. This commitment is part of an ongoing push by the IAMC member, which now sources more than two-thirds of all its aluminum, nearly three quarters of its rare earth and more than 95% of the tungsten in its products.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/04/apple-will-use-100-percent-recycled-cobalt-in-batteries-by-2025/
URBAN LAND INSTITUTE—The US Army Corps of Engineers and the Texas General Land Office have mounted a massive $31-billion project to preserve the hurricane-battered Texas shoreline. According to ULI, Texas has more than 3,300 miles of shoreline and the greatest number of annual federally declared natural disasters of any state. In addition, it boasts the fastest growing population, with a current count of 29 million people, six million of whom live on the coast. The Coastal Texas Resiliency Improvement Plan includes two parts: The Coastwide Ecosystem Restoration Plan, designed to improve resilience from Galveston to Corpus Christi, and the Galveston Bay Storm Surge Barrier System, “an elaborate battery” of robust, manmade, heavyweight engineering defenses to protect shipping and the port of Houston.
https://urbanland.uli.org/public/mammoth-project-to-protect-the-texas-coast-and-the-port-of-houston/?utm_source=realmagnet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HQ%20Urban%20Land%2004%2E17%2E23
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE—The Utah Inland Port Authority has given the thumbs up on a massive logistics park in Cedar City, UT. Commerce Crossroads Logistics Park, a proposed 820-acre, 41-building campus and transportation hub, will form part of Iron Springs, an 899-acre inland shipping and freight port, Utah’s first rural inland port. The project will also include a 400,000-square-foot office headquarters for BZI Steel, the project’s co-developer with Commerce Crossroads. VISCO is general contractor; LINX Commercial Real Estate is brokering the site.
https://www.commercialsearch.com/news/820-acre-industrial-park-coming-to-utah/
CNN BUSINESS—Tough new emission standards—the first reported update since 2001, aimed at large trucks, delivery vans and buses--have been hatched by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Some 80% stronger than current regs and set to go into action in model year 2027, the update will set a 2045 deadline for heavy-duty vehicles to cut nitrogen oxide emissions by almost 50%.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/business/epa-heavy-truck-emissions-rule-climate/index.html
TRANSPORT DIVE—“America’s Unsung Heroes.” That’s how “Jeopardy!” champ Brian Henegar referred to America’s truckers when he hit $70,202 in game show wins. Henegar works at Pilot Flying J in Knoxville, TN, a national (44-state) truck-stop purveyor. In a post-game chat with host Ken Jennings, he called truckers “The people that keep this country moving.” Further, in an interview with Transport Dive, Henegar explained that “anything a trucker or a professional driver needs to make their life a little easier to do their job, that’s our job to provide for them.” He called them all America’s unsung heroes.
https://www.transportdive.com/news/trucking-jeopardy-contestant-brian-henegar/647376/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202023-04-18%20Transport%20Dive%20%5Bissue:49733%5D&utm_term=Transport%20Dive
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