Trump Administration

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) has introduced legislation requiring the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to explain why proposed rules on mandatory hair testing for drugs in the transportation sector have yet to be issued. The Preventing Opioid and Drug Impairment in Transportation...

Environmental opposition and a glut of liquified natural gas (LNG) are among the challenges facing a proposed Oregon natural gas pipeline and export terminal project that is seeking federal regulatory approval for the third time in a decade. The latest activist pushback occurred on Thursday, Nov....

Tariffs scheduled to increase from 25% to 30% on $250 billion worth of goods exported from China into the United States on October 15 could be postponed or cancelled depending on progress made in trade talks this week between the two countries, according to the U.S Chamber of Commerce. Optimism...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is considering allowing cameras to replace both rearview and sideview mirrors on trucks. In a proposal scheduled to be posted on October 10, NHTSA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation, announced it will be opening a 60-...

The Democratic head of the House committee with transportation oversight wants to put the brakes on a Trump administration proposal to let freight railroads haul liquefied natural gas in tank cars. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) and Congressman Tom...

The United States is planning to lift steel and aluminum tariffs on Mexico and Canada, clearing the way for ratification of the so-called "United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement," the replacement for NAFTA, according to a Bloomberg report. The industry reacted to the report with...

The U.S. Department of Labor found that workers providing services for an unnamed "virtual marketplace" company to be independent contractors, a development that could prove highly valuable for ride-sharing companies whose profits hinge on the use of workers with non-employee status....

A highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Congressional leaders on April 30 will likely set the groundwork for an infrastructure bill and could determine President Trump's appetite for raising the federal gasoline tax to pay for it. The infrastructure summit, which will include...

  A weekly look at what occurred in the oil markets of the U.S. and the world this past week and what's ahead. Time's just about up. Early next month, the six-month waivers granted to eight countries that allowed them to continue importing Iranian oil despite U.S. financial sanctions...

The Canadian government announced that it plans to appeal a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling over how the U.S. applies tariffs on softwood lumber.   "Canada's forest industry sustains hundreds of thousands of good, middle-class jobs in communities across our country,"...

As the 116th Congress convenes today, changes in leadership among House and Senate committees will be important to the success or failure of an infrastructure agenda. Will that agenda find bipartisan support by politicians looking to score political points on Capitol Hill and within the Trump...

The international solar community is in an uproar over a hefty import tax the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency enacted in January on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. The pushback might just change minds in Washington, D.C., according to Height Securities.  “We continue to...

It seems there’s little the Trump Administration could do to surprise these days. So in the possibility that, in the third round of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement this week, it withdraws from the treaty altogether, it may be worth considering what a self-sufficient...

Health care, the S&P 500's third-largest sector allocation, is rebounding nicely after slumping in 2016 when the sector notched its first negative showing on an annual basis. This year, the Health Care Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLV) is higher by nearly 15 percent. Although the health care...

In early June, the Trump administration announced the federal government would stop preparing for the Y2K bug, a computing glitch that would prevent computers from processing the date correctly at the turn of the millennium. Y2K was over 17 years ago. Not much really happened. Throughout those 17...