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An EPA Appeals Board has reversed an earlier EPA ruling permitting the construction of a new coal fired power plant in Vernal Utah. The latter had been issued without regard for the additional CO2 emissions the plant would added to the environment. The ruling was hailed as a victory by...

 YRC Worldwide's decision to write down $823 million in impairment charges for its YRC National long-haul and logistics units guarantees that YRC will report its fourth losing quarter in its last five reporting periods. Counting the $756 million in goodwill it wrote off on its 2005 purchase of...

Greenbrier reported that their backlog for production in 2009 is less than half the number of cars they delivered in 2008 and that they may not make a profit on some of those cars due to higher than expected material costs. And that was the good news. The bad news is that much of their backlog is to...

    The most recent Surface Transportation Board Rate Case filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) against the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for coal transportation from the Powder River Basin to the Muskogee coal plant actually shows the attractiveness of this move to the...

    Another coal-transporting utility has filed a Rate Case at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) alleging excessive rates for coal transportation.  This most recent case was filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) against the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for coal...

    The suit alleges four of the Class I Railroads violated Federal antitrust laws with respect to fuel surcharge.  The four Class I Railroads in the suit are CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad.  The time period is July 2003 through June 20...

Federal dollars are available for highway spending. However, many states are not able to come up with the matching funds necessary to utilize this funding.

  Deutsche Post World Net's decision to essentially exit the U.S. domestic parcel market means a boost to rivals UPS and FedEx. Those two giants should be able to divide about 80 percent of DHL's domestics U.S. business, 70 percent of its ground revenue and perhaps 5 percent of its import and export...

As more carriers leave the marketplace, a less competitive landscape is the result. Once the economy rebounds, and volumes begin to increase, a less competitive marketplace will lead to higher rates.

undefinedundefined undefined Shippers and carriers will have to work together to avoid fines like the ones imposed recently on Waste Management. In the 2008 fiscal year, the EPA has required polluters to spend an estimated $11 billion on pollution controls, clean-up and environmental projects — an all...