BNSF Railway’s efforts to serve two shippers located on Union Pacific trackage were dealt a setback today when federal ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB), short one member at four and evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, on ...

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

Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) (emphasizing that ...

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 ...

By removing this poison from the regulatory well, the Supreme Court has begun to clear the path to tackling our most pressing energy and environmental challenges.

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 ...

Federal agencies on Monday began rolling out updates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures in the wake ...

In 2020, the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition applied to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board for approval of the railroad’s construction. Under NEPA, ...

The Surface Transportation Board has opened a formal review of Watco’s acquisition of Michigan rail short line Great Lakes Central. The post Regulator concerns pause Watco’s Michigan shortline ...