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WASHINGTON — Many Americans aren’t yet sold on going electric for their next cars, a new poll shows, with high prices and too few charging stations the main deterrents.

MINNEAPOLIS — To drug expert Todd Simo, the statement that the use of marijuana is just like alcohol, but safer, isn’t exactly accurate.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will propose strict new automobile pollution limits this week that would require at least 54% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030.  

Diesel’s national average price fell for the 10th straight week, this time by less than a cent, to $4.098 a gallon, according to the Energy Information Administration.

The Port of Laredo, Texas, just went from the No. 1 inland port in the U.S. to the country’s No. 1 international trade port overall, beating large cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.

House lawmakers intend to pursue funding for freight connectivity projects as part of fiscal 2024 budget negotiations on Capitol Hill.

With U.S.-Canada border traffic volumes lower than before the pandemic at three entry ports in North Dakota and one in Idaho, federal officials have temporarily extended operating hours.

That dredging process at the Port of Oakland has enormous implications for the future of shipping and transportation in the Bay Area, and may hold the key to protecting local shorelines.

Double-brokering — when a carrier accepts a load and then illegally re-brokers it to another carrier — is on the rise, costing brokers and carriers millions of dollars.

OMAHA, Neb. — Federal regulators said April 7 that railroads need to re-examine how they assemble their trains after a string of derailments in recent years.