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Ships visiting Southern California’s bustling ports are poised to become the region’s largest source of smog-causing pollutants in coming years, one reason state regulators want to reduce emissions from thousands more of them.

From electric trucks and startups to international megamergers, the state of the fast-evolving auto industry in Illinois comes down to a tale of three cities: Normal, Belvidere and Chicago.

LANSING, Mich. — If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to “fix the damn roads” during the 2020 election year, she’ll have to quickly find consensus with Republican lawmakers, say political operatives who’ve worked on transportation funding.

General Motors Co. and Tesla are about to become the first automakers that will have to sell EVs without the benefit of a $7,500 federal tax credit.

AKRON, Ohio — GDS Express Inc., which has 75 tractor-trailers, abruptly closed a week before Christmas, leaving several drivers out on the road without paychecks or credit for fuel.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — BNSF Railway, one of the largest freight railroad networks on the continent, has furloughed some of its Sioux City workers.

After two years of strong demand, the heavy-duty truck market is shifting into a lower gear, a slowdown that likely will lead to layoffs at Mack Trucks’ assembly plant in Lower Macungie Township, Pa.

Teams of researchers based at three state universities will spend the next three years developing ways to help North Carolina prepare for autonomous vehicles and other new transportation technologies.

When Virginia Addicott became president and CEO of FedEx Custom Critical 12 years ago, not only was she the female head of a trucking company, she was also one of the few women at the table at Akron, Ohio-area civic leader meetings.

JEFFERSON CITY — An additional lane on Interstate 70 in O’Fallon, Mo., and a new roadway for a long-sought riverside development in St. Charles are on tap as part of an outlay of state and local transportation dollars announced Dec. 16.