The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon issue new rules that will severely restrict the amount of pollution that will be allowed in the exhaust of diesel engines. And the changes could result in sharp price increases and dramatically diminished supplies of the fuel.

Stacked side by side, the 90 five-inch-thick binders containing the ergonomics documentation resembled a fort as opponents continued to lay siege to the proposed standard last week.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bud Shuster has come out against rolling back the federal fuel tax, arguing that major road construction and rebuilding projects would be stopped in their tracks.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon issue new rules that will impose tighter limits on pollution in the exhaust of diesel engines, and the changes could result in sharp fuel price increases.

A voluntary private-government partnership program will be announced March 22 by the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at improving air quality.

Opponents of the proposed ergonomics standard came out swinging at the start of federal hearings last week, criticizing the burden the new standards could place on their businesses.

A federal appellate court in Boston reversed an award of $525,000 that NBC television news was ordered to pay a Maine trucking company owner, his wife and one of his drivers.

More than 6,000 comments have been logged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as public hearings are set to begin on the agency’s controversial ergonomics proposal.

More than 6,000 comments have been logged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as public hearings are set to begin on the agency’s controversial ergonomics proposal.

A federal appellate court in Boston reversed an award of $525,000 that NBC television news was ordered to pay a Maine trucking company owner, his wife and one of his drivers.