Union Pacific has asked the Surface Transportation Board to disallow some of the material Metra included in its latest filing ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has adopted for third-quarter 2025 the rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF), which is defined as “an index formulated to represent changes in railroad costs ...

Metra has proposed that terms for its continued operation on Union Pacific lines in the Chicago area maintain the status quo ...

Following confirmation by the United State Senate in November, the Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving ...

NCTD initially filed the petition Aug. 28, 2020, with the federal board, and then in early 2021 suspended it to work on an agreement with Del Mar and the California Coastal Commission.

DENVER — Surface Transportation Board Chairman Patrick Fuchs says he is transforming the regulatory agency into a more efficient body that will help support competition and growth for railroads.

The Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) Office of Environmental Analysis on March 29 issued a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in connection with Green Eagle ...

A decision issued late last week by the Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving ...

The federal Surface Transportation Board approved the rail line in 2021, after a lengthy environmental review of the potential effects on air pollution, wetlands, wildlife, and more.

U.S. Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman announced last week that he would not seek a second term with the federal regulator. Oberman made the announcement at the RailTrends ...

The federal Surface Transportation Board recently found a controversial plan to build a 5,000-foot rail line in Kings Park to haul away incinerator ash and construction debris would bring few or ...

Oberman, 78, was appointed to the five-member board in 2019 and was named STB chairman by President Joe Biden. Oberman announced at an industry conference yesterday that he wouldn’t seek ...