In The News

• Ontario plans to tax carbon emissions

  By David Tanner, staff writer - Land Line
  Posted Jun 1st 2009 3:20AM

  The Ontario provincial government wants to implement a cap-and-trade system to tax carbon emissions as early as 2012....

• Economy sinks at a 5.7 percent pace in first quarter

  By Jeannine Aversa - The Associated Press
  Posted Jun 1st 2009 3:19AM

  WASHINGTON — The economy sank at a 5.7 percent pace as the brute force of the recession carried over into the ...

• Organization urges VA governor to keep rest areas open

  By Clarissa Kell-Holland, staff writer, LandLine
  Posted May 29th 2009 3:51AM

  It seems the Virginia Department of Transportation is more concerned with dollar signs than with highway safety when i...

• April new home sales inch upward

  By Alan Zibel - The Associated Press
  Posted May 29th 2009 3:46AM

  WASHINGTON — Sales of newly built homes were flat last month, but were 7 percent above the rock-bottom lows of...

• Obama nominates Trottenberg for DOT post

  By The Trucker News Services
  Posted May 29th 2009 3:43AM

  WASHINGTON — Polly Trottenberg has been nominated as assistant secretary for transportation policy at the Depar...