It’s difficult to imagine precisely what Washington’s end game might be with the recent imposition of tariffs on Canadian, Mexican, and European steel and aluminum imports. When the US administration initially floated the idea in spring 2017, it did so on the grounds that the dearth of manufacturing in the United States posed a threat to national security interests. At the time, few observers believed national security interests were really at play, with most speculating it was simply a populist administration attempting to find a convenient, legal loophole to push through a “Buy American” agenda. <h2>Several theories regarding the Trump...

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The South Coast Air Quality Management District says it will create rules to reduce emissions at Southern California rail yards because Union Pacific insists on including public financing as a precondition for participating in the more collaborative MOU process.

The spending program will target the company’s logistics and services arm with a “substantial amount of investment” earmarked for its ocean and terminals infrastructure in the region.

The IMO’s global market-based emissions-cutting measure will be introduced in 2027 when it will clash with Europe’s ETS and could force shippers to comply —  and pay for —  two CO2-reducing systems at the same time, classification societies believe.

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