Donald Trump Transportation News Updates

Government, Business, Fuel

Trump’s Return to OPEC Politics Complicates Oil Talks

U.S. President Donald Trump has raised the stakes for a meeting of an OPEC+ ministerial panel next month, with his call for the group to lower oil prices.

January 24, 2025
Government, Business

Trudeau Says Americans Will Pay More if Trump Sets Tariffs

TORONTO — Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Jan. 23 that American consumers will pay more whenever President Donald Trump decides to apply tariffs on Canadian products.

January 24, 2025
Government, Business, Technology

Trump Takes Aim at EV Policies With New Energy Order

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order meant to advance domestic oil and gas production and halt programs enacted during the Biden administration to boost adoption of EVs.

January 23, 2025
Government, Business

Tariffs: First Days of the Trump Administration

President Donald Trump said Jan. 20 that he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1, while declining to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.   

January 23, 2025
Government, Business, Fuel

Trump Urges Lower Oil Prices, Interest Rate Cuts at Davos

President Donald Trump said he would ask Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations to “bring down the cost of oil” and reiterated his threat to use tariffs to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. 

January 23, 2025
Government, Business, Fuel

Trump’s Agriculture Pick Says She'll Honor All Fuel Sources

President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee American farming was once head of a group that was among the loudest opponents of a favorite U.S. agriculture product: biofuels.

January 23, 2025
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

State Trucking Groups Tout CARB Retreat, Continue Fight

While California abandoned its pursuit of regulatory approval for the Advanced Clean Fleets rule, its Advanced Clean Trucks regulation is still being enforced in 10 states.

January 22, 2025
Government, Business, Safety, Logistics

House Highway Bill on Panel’s Radar, Chairman Graves Says

“This will be a collaborative process in which the committee will solicit feedback from both members and stakeholders,” Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said during a hearing Jan. 15.

January 22, 2025
Government, Business, Fuel

Trump Targets Alaska’s Oil and Other Resources

JUNEAU, Alaska — President Donald Trump’s expansive executive order aimed at boosting oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in Alaska is being cheered by state political leaders.

January 22, 2025
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel

Trump Orders Removal of EV-Favoring Policies and Subsidies

President Donald Trump ordered his administration to consider eliminating subsidies and other policies that favor electric vehicles.

January 21, 2025