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Roadway Environmental Ratings: What’s Best for Your Agency?

There’s a choice of programs to use in rating sustainable roads

 

By Tom Kuennen, Contributing Editor

 

The never-ending quest to define which pavements and highways can be considered “environmentally sustainable” has gotten a lot harder, just as it’s gotten easier.

It’s gotten easier because state, county and municipal agencies can choose from a variety of programs that enable them to evaluate and rate the “green-ness” of a particular pavement.

But it’s gotten harder because, well, there are so many to choose from.