A US Rail Strike Was Averted—but the Crisis Is Far From Over
[ad_1] In the early hours of Thursday morning, major US freight railroad companies reached a tentative agreement with unions, narrowly averting a nationwide rail shutdown less than 24 hours before…
A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
[ad_1] Unions have also disputed how railroads have used new congressionally-mandated automated emergency braking systems to justify plans to remove conductors from trains, which would leave the engineer the sole…
The New Climate Bill Demands All-American EV Batteries
[ad_1] The lack of a US supply chain for electric vehicle battery materials is often spun as a tale of inconvenient geography. In many ways, this is true. There’s cobalt…