U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) is looking to a bipartisan innovation bill, the Endless Frontiers Act , to expand research into critical and rare earth
Small Roads, Ports Outline Infrastructure Investment, Policy Priorities
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American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA) President Chuck Baker and American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) President and CEO Chris Connor offered supply chain investment and policy recommendations during a hearing this week of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports.
Chuck Baker, ASLRRA
In his testimony, ASLRRA’s Baker highlighted the industry’s contributions to the U.S. supply chain, and made four key legislative policy recommendations that could “create more leverage toward meeting economic and environmental goals as part of a surface transportation or infrastructure bill in the 117th Congress.”
The US Department of Defense will remove China’s Xiaomi Corp (小米) from a government blacklist, a court filing showed, clearing the way for any future US investment in the smartphone maker.
The filing stated that the two parties would agree to resolve their ongoing litigation without further contest, bringing to an end a brief and controversial spat between the hardware company and Washington.
Xiaomi did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Earlier this year, the department, under former US president Donald Trump’s administration, designated the firm as having ties to China’s military and placed it on a list that would
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JOCO, a new docked e-bike service in New York City, has launched and is already facing some headwinds. The service started with 300 e-bikes at 300 stations in private parking garages and plans to expand to about 1,000 e-bikes at 100 stations by June. That is, unless the NYC Department of Transportation has anything to say about it.