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Canadian National Railway Co.’s $30 billion takeover bid for Kansas City Southern received a boost Aug. 6 when a prominent shareholder advisory firm recommended that shareholders support the deal.

Trevor Milton has more in common with Elon Musk than starting a prominent electric vehicle company named after inventor Nikola Tesla. He’s now hired the same lawyers to defend him.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Aug. 5 announced plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollutants from heavy-duty trucks in a series of major rulemakings over the next three years.

Transport Topics has launched a digital event series that spotlights its supplemental publications, and featured its new Calibrate equipment-focused magazine and redesigned iTECH technology publication in its debut episodes.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced July 28 that it has directed $60 million toward projects meant to reduce emissions in trucks and cars.

A group of transportation industry representatives has sent letters to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking that they hold off on adopting the California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule.

President Joe Biden will ultimately decide whether foreign chip producers will receive some of the $52 billion in funding planned to help ease the shortage that has hammered manufacturing, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.

The leaders of the U.S. Senate’s freight committee called on the Biden administration, congressional colleagues and private industry stakeholders to enhance security operations following the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline.

Two U.S. senators proposed repealing the excise tax on new trucks as an effort to modernize the freight industry.