Green Highways Podcast
Each episode of the GHPodcast features an interview with a different Partnership executive or expert. To listen, click the Play button on the episode's player; to download, follow the episode's link to the Green Highways Gabcast channel.
| Green Highways Podcast #6 - Jan Prusinski Jan Prusinski, Executive Director of the Slag Cement Association | |
| Green Highways Podcast #5 - Steve Hawtof Steve Hawtof, Project Manager for U.S. Route 301 revitalization. | |
| Green Highways Podcast #4 - John Deatrick John Deatrick, Deputy Director of DC Department of Transportation. | |
| Green Highways Podcast #3 - Marlys Osterhues Marlys Osterhues, Federal Highway Administration environmental specialist and author of "On the Way to Greener Highways." | |
| Green Highways Podcast #2 - Dave Goss Dave Goss, Executive Director of the American Coal Ash Association. | |
| Green Highways Podcast #1 - Raja Veeramachaneni Raja Veeramacheneni, Maryland State Highway Administration Director of Planning and Preliminary Engineering. | |
What are the transportation and environmental communities saying about Green Highways? |
Director Raja Veeramachaneni of Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering for Maryland State Highway Administration says, “The Green Highways Initiative serves as an opportunity to translate good ideas into practical realities.”
Laura Conley-Rinehart for West Virginia DOT says, “This Initiative will result in the development of practical approaches to innovative solutions, along with better cooperation between agency, industry and the public.”
Executive Director Elizabeth Olenbush for Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today says, “The Green Highways Initiative will develop the support needed to assist the technical transfer of information to the county and municipal levels where information and assistance will be most beneficial.”
Nancy Stoner for the Natural Resource Defense Council says, “This Initiative will be invaluable if it can support the widespread use of simple, low cost measures to protect watersheds from stormwater pollution and serve to increase funding for stormwater mitigation.”
Tom Jansen for WE Energies says, “The Green Highways Initiative will allow for greater emphasis to be placed on the energy component of highway construction such as renewable energy, pavement technologies that improve fuel efficiency, and materials that have lower life cycle energy usage.”
Senior Vice President Hal Kassoff for Parsons Brinkerhoff says, “The Green Highways Initiative reflects a “better than before” approach to the natural, human and built environments establishing parity between environmental stewardship and the transportation functionality of highway projects.”
Executive Director Dave Goss for American Coal Ash Association (ACAA) says, “Through ACAA’s network of members, opportunities will be created to assist the Green Highways Initiative to pursue partnerships, case studies, and outreach.”
Andy Fekete for RBA Group considers relationships to be the most vital outcome of this Initiative. Fekete says, "This Initiative allows for each group involved to better understand one another and establish roles and responsibilities for each. In developing these relationships, a sense of shared ownership for the Initiative arises."
Former Associate Administrator Cindy Burbank for FHWA, Planning, Environment and Realty says, "The Green Highways Forum is a turning point towards the creation of goodwill relationships and partnerships... for the advancement of transportation and the environment."
Brian Deery for Associated General Contractors of America says, “This Initiative presents the opportunity to build on previous successful environmental efforts concerning transportation.”
Director of Transportation Maintenance Division Gary McVoy for NY State DOT says, "The Green Highways Forum provided an opportunity for a common language to be established within the practical, low-cost, effective best practices everyone can agree on."
Deputy Director William Brannon of Water & Waste Management for West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection says, "The Green Highways Initiative will seek ways to come together and recognize areas where enhancement of each group's authorities and responsibilities may occur."