California Gov. Gavin Newsom

West Coast gets $102M for electric truck corridor

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $102 million to build an electric truck freight corridor along the U.S. West Coast.

The West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project, managed by the California Department of Transportation, will deploy charging and hydrogen fueling stations for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks along 2,500 miles of freight corridors in California, Oregon and Washington, according to the grant application.

The project will allow...

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Buttigieg vows to fight container-rate inflation

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Tuesday to promote record-setting cargo volumes while vowing to address potential anticompetitive behavior in the container markets.

“There’s no question that when you have a scarcity of access to shipping, you’re going to see upward pressure on prices, and that’s going to be part of our challenge when it comes to inflation,” Buttigieg told a gathering of port officials and lawmakers at the Port of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/buttigieg-vows-to-fight-container-rate-inflation

California lawmakers seek supply chain ‘state of emergency’

Federal lawmakers from California are pressuring Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency and suspend or eliminate regulations to deal with a supply chain crisis they say has no letup in sight.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Newsom, a Democrat, eight U.S. representatives — all Republican — said that while President Joe Biden’s recent call for 24/7 operations at California ports is a “step in the right direction,” more than 100 ships are still anchored off the ports of Los Angeles and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/california-lawmakers-seek-supply-chain-state-of-emergency

Ag retailers: Zero-emission truck plan could ‘devastate’ agriculture

An environmental policy promoted by Democratic lawmakers to effectively ban internal combustion engines (ICEs) for heavy-duty trucks by 2040 would be a major economic blow to agribusiness by causing dramatic decreases in ethanol, biodiesel and corn prices, according to a new report.

“Economic Impacts to U.S. Biofuels, Agriculture, and the Economy from Subsidized Electric Vehicle Penetration,” commissioned by the Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA), responds to strategies included in a...

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