News Releases

Surface Transportation Board Issues New Order to BNSF & CP Railways

June 26, 2014

The Surface Transportation Board (STB), the federal entity with regulatory oversight over the rail industry, issued a new directive this week requiring BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway to provide detailed reports on their plans ...

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Senate Finance Committee Working on Highway Bill Funding

June 26, 2014

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a meeting for Thursday, June 26 to mark-up Chairman Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) draft measure to fund the Highway Trust Fund. The Chairman’s proposal provides $9 billion in revenue needed ...

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Amendment to Boost Waterways Funding Could Be Offered at Mark-Up

June 26, 2014

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has indicated his intention to offer an amendment, during the Finance Committee’s Thursday mark-up of the highway trust fund proposals, to increase the barge fuel fee that funds the Inland Waterways ...

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Cargill CEO Calls for Adaptation to Climate Change

June 26, 2014

Greg Page, the Chairman and CEO of Cargill, this week joined former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros and hedge fund manager Tom Steyer in releasing a report called ...

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ASA Promotes U.S. Soy at Oilseed Market and Trade Forum in China

June 26, 2014

Earlier in June, ASA presented the positives of U.S. soy at the Grain and Oilseed Market and Trade Forum in China. ASA Board Member Alan Kemper, of Lafayette, Ind., spoke in Beijing and visited the ...

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