Tag: regulation

October 13, 2017

THE MOMENTUM BUILDS. This week we saw a bunch of schemes to get self-driving cars on the road. The state of California released the latest draft of its regulations to make it easier for driverless cars to be on public […]

October 3, 2017

THERE’S A BIG, buzzy trend sweeping the planet. Countries and municipalities like the United Kingdom, Norway, France, the Netherlands, India, and China have all made a similar pledge: They’re going to kick their gasoline-powered car habit in the next few […]

June 14, 2017

More than half the House has signed on to a letter asking that any effort to overhaul the tax code be used to permanently fix the Highway Trust Fund. The letter from Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes […]

June 6, 2017

THE FIRST PART of President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan took flight Monday when the president called for the privatization of the country’s air traffic control system. “We’re still stuck with an ancient, broken, antiquated, horrible system that doesn’t work,” Trump […]

March 8, 2017

IN ITS ONGOING jihad against federal regulations, the Trump administration has indicated some interest in targeting the ones that attempt to fight climate change. First in its sights: a funky law that gives the state of California the right to […]

December 12, 2016

YOU CAN HARDLY blame Michigan for trying to scarf down its piece of pie before someone swipes it off their plate. The Wolverine State just became one of the first in the country to formally give the thumbs-up to autonomous […]

October 27, 2016

IT’S HARD TO get a handle on the ugly, smoggy implications of this nation’s dependence on fossil fuel-burning cars. Deaths from pollution and climate change tend to pile up slowly, in asthma attacks, flood fatalities, and respiratory illnesses. But you, […]

October 17, 2016

New federal guidelines for driverless cars may set the stage for how the government approaches emerging technologies in the future. Washington has long wrestled with how to keep pace with Silicon Valley, and federal regulators sought out a different and […]

July 15, 2016

Federal regulators are proposing new rules aimed at mitigating the effects of derailments, spills and explosions of oil trains. The regulation from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) would strengthen the standards for railroads’ spill response plans, along […]

July 11, 2016

Major airlines are competing for a limited number of flights to Cuba, with the Obama administration considering whether to allow a direct route to the island from Washington, D.C. The Transportation Department has been tasked with divvying up the flights, […]