The operator of a pair of Midwest power plants wants $22 million from BNSF Railway, according to recent documents filed with ...

The Surface Transportation Board, under the direction of Chairman Patrick Fuchs, continues to clear its docket of case ...

WASHINGTON – Surface Transportation Board Chairman Patrick Fuchs provided an update today on efforts to clear a backlog of cases that have languished for years. The cases include: Colorado Landowners ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB), short one member at four and evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, on ...

A federal board on Wednesday approved a Canadian Pacific Railway merger with Kansas City Southern, creating a freight rail system linking North America. The deal is the nation’s first major rail ...

A decision issued late last week by the Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving ...

Following confirmation by the United State Senate in November, the Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving ...

Metra has proposed that terms for its continued operation on Union Pacific lines in the Chicago area maintain the status quo ...

The federal Surface Transportation Board approved the rail line in 2021, after a lengthy environmental review of the potential effects on air pollution, wetlands, wildlife, and more.

NCTD initially filed the petition Aug. 28, 2020, with the federal board, and then in early 2021 suspended it to work on an agreement with Del Mar and the California Coastal Commission.

DENVER — Surface Transportation Board Chairman Patrick Fuchs says he is transforming the regulatory agency into a more efficient body that will help support competition and growth for railroads.

The 8-0 decision overturned an appellate court’s ruling in favor of the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the train line, supporting “agency choices so long as they fall within a ...