Today on TAP: He called out the airlines for making parents pay extra to sit next to their kids. Presto chango, United announced it won’t do that anymore.
Transportation
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Chemical Desolation in Appalachia
Freight rail companies are running their trains ragged to boost profits. Sometimes they crash.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Electric-Vehicle Charging Swerves Around Speed Bumps
Big Oil has its eye on the EV charging infrastructure sector.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Firefighter Hell: When an Electric Car Bursts Into Flames
With the clean-energy transition accelerating, firefighters want better information about EV safety risks and hazards.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Reclaiming U.S. Industry
Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work.
Posted inTransportation
Anti-Monopoly Reformer Joins Department of Transportation
Jen Howard, former chief of staff to Lina Khan at the FTC, is the new chief competition officer at DOT.
Posted inTransportation
What Was Behind Last Week’s FAA Breakdown?
Pete Buttigieg’s personnel choices were certainly a factor.
Posted inTransportation
The FTC Banned an Unfair Practice. The Department of Transportation Can, Too.
DOT has the same statutory language to effectively ban deceptive flight cancellations, the way the FTC has banned noncompete agreements.
Posted inTransportation
Government Spending Bill Waives Aircraft Safety Deadline
Boeing gets its way, again.
Posted inTransportation
Boeing’s Lobbying Blitz
The airplane maker is scrambling to get a deadline for improving cockpit safety systems on all planes pushed back.