Tag: Trump administration

June 5, 2020

The Trump administration signed an executive order to advance its longtime goals of waiving environmental laws and speeding permitting for highways and other infrastructure projects, arguing that such projects will help stimulate the economy ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. As […]

May 20, 2020

DOT is the latest agency to get swept into the Trump administration’s moves against independent government watchdogs in recent months. Three high-ranking House Democrats on Tuesday demanded the reinstatement of Mitchell Behm, who they say was removed as acting DOT […]

May 15, 2020

With airlines and the White House pushing for the agency to start conducting passenger temperature screenings, there are concerns on the Hill that it may not have the legal authority, our team scooped Thursday. A House Homeland Security aide told […]

March 9, 2020

Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump administration, along with the travel industry, have insisted it’s safe to travel, as long as it’s not to anywhere the government has issued a specific travel warning or restriction. That came crashing down over […]

March 3, 2020

The Trump administration is ramping up its pressure on airlines to find a way to send along more complete passenger data to assist with coronavirus efforts. The issue has been simmering for weeks, after the CDC issued a rule compelling […]

February 20, 2020

The sanctions are expected to make it more difficult for Venezuela to export oil, especially to China and India, exerting further pressure on the tanker market. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that […]

February 7, 2020

The Trump administration’s move to bar New Yorkers from enrolling in DHS trusted traveler programs jolted the state and Congress, but there could be more where that came from. The agency’s acting deputy secretary threatened a similar fate for other […]

January 13, 2020

In the latest sanctions, the US Treasury targeted Iran’s billion-dollar metal industry and senior regime officials clamping down on the country’s remaining revenue sources. A total of 17 Iranian metals producers and mining companies were listed in the latest group […]

January 7, 2020

The Trump administration is proposing new rules to guide future federal regulation of artificial intelligence used in medicine, transportation and other industries. But the vagueness of the principles announced by the White House is unlikely to satisfy AI watchdogs who […]

November 5, 2019

China is seeking the rollback of U.S. tariffs on as much as $360 billion of Chinese imports before President Xi Jinping agrees to go to the U.S. to sign a partial trade deal with President Donald Trump, according to people […]

July 16, 2019

AN ‘ATC FOR DRONES’: After decades of experience in the telecommunications sector, Wheeler is turning (some of) his attention to drones. Wheeler, who was FCC chairman during the Obama administration, recently joined the board of AirMap, which is building a […]

May 17, 2019

FAST TRAIN TO NOWHERE: The Trump administration made it official Thursday: It’s rescinding nearly $1 billion in funding for California’s high-speed rail project, arguing the state has repeatedly violated the terms of a grant agreement. Our Tanya Snyder has more […]

March 5, 2019

DEADLINE DAY: Today’s the day FRA said it will terminate an agreement with California, paving the way to cancel nearly a billion dollars in funding for the state’s high-speed rail project. What exactly will happen today (and what it means […]

October 29, 2018

General Motors said Friday that it wants the Trump administration to create a National Zero Emission Vehicle program, modeled on California’s efforts. GM, the country’s biggest automaker, said a requirement that a certain percentage of cars sold to be zero-emissions […]

August 2, 2018

The White House proposed dramatically weakening fuel economy standards on Thursday, reversing the only major federal policy to reduce planet-warming emissions from the nation’s top source of greenhouse gas pollution. The move would clear the way for vehicles to, by […]

June 22, 2018

The Trump administration on Thursday unveiled a far-reaching proposal to reorganize the federal government, with four pages dedicated to our favorite department. The document makes clear that the administration still wants air traffic control operations taken out of the FAA, […]

June 6, 2018

The deregulatory nature of the Trump administration threatens delay or elimination of several Obama-era trucking-related regulations, but those that remain on the books will continue to be aggressively enforced, panelists said at a law seminar here. “That’s what I’m seeing […]

May 11, 2018

House Republican leaders have dumped thousands of dollars into a campaign in California to repeal the state’s 2017 gas tax hike via ballot measure in “a move that stands in contrast to the Trump administration’s preference that states cough up […]

March 30, 2018

The Trump administration will argue that the high cost of meeting Obama-era fuel economy standards discourages motorists from trading in less-efficient vehicles, as it sets about weakening the rules, said people familiar with the discussions. The Environmental Protection Agency already […]

March 12, 2018

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is scheduled to appear before the House Appropriations Transportation-HUD Subcommittee on Thursday, and MT is here to refresh your memory of President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2019 budget proposal. His budget calls for a 19 percent cut […]