Study Group: DOT Regulation & Policy Experts: Lawyers(?)

Would reliance on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) have jeopardized the railroads' ability to continue to differentially price their services? Did the STB succumb to railroad pressure for changing the methodology for calculating a railroad's cost of equity less that a month after having found...

Trash companies in recent years have escaped State and local environmental regulation by buying a few hundred feet of track, declaring themselves railroads and utilizing the shield of preemption available to railroads to avoid such regulation. Funding for the STB for fiscal year 2008 prohibits...

The STB's determination that the CP's proposed acquisition of the DM&E is a significant merger proposal is of little consequence. Although styled an indepedent regulatory agency, the STB is atune to political considerations and, rendering its decision, bowed to the oppossition of the Mayo Clinic...

The Surface Transportation Board has proposed to change its methodology for calculating the railroad industry cost of capital.  The cost of capital is used for several regulatory purposes.  Lowering the cost of capital, as proposed by the agency, could increase the rate relief available to...

1. A Bosporus pipeline bypass would alleviate the congestion in the crowded straits, provide access to a deepwater port, and potentially allow more crude oil shipments from Russia and Central Asia.2.  Similar proposals for a direct bypass have been discussed for more than a decade and none has...