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Flight Delayed: New Airline Fines For Tarmac Stranding

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Airline Fine, Delay Fine, Transportation Department, Fine, Travel Delay, Rochester, Tarmac Delay, Continental, Expressjet, Tarmac, Mesaba, Home News

WASHINGTON — The government is imposing fines for the first time against airlines for stranding passengers on an airport tarmac, the Transportat...

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690,000 Vehicles Sold Under Cash For Clunkers

AP | KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, Gm, Cars and Trucks, Car Dealerships, Ford, Congress, Clunkers, Toyota, Honda, Ray Lahood, GM and Cash for Clunkers, Cars, Chrysler, General Motors, Transportation Department, Nissan, Cars Sold Under Cash for Clunkers, Business News

WASHINGTON — The popular Cash for Clunkers program generated nearly 700,000 new car sales during the past month, giving the U.S. auto industry a...

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Cash For Clunkers: Deadline Extended For Dealers To Submit Deals

AP | KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, National Automobile Dealers Association, Auto Dealers, Transportation Department, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department is assuring auto dealers they will get time to submit their pending Cash for Clunkers deals, as conti...

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Number Of Women Arrested For Drunk Driving Has Jumped 30 Percent In Past Decade

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Drunk Driving, Women Driving Drunk, Diane Schuler, NY Wrong-Way Crash, Drunk Driving Study, Crime, Transportation Department, Taconic Parkway Crash, Dwi, Dui, Taconic Parkway, Drunk Drivers, New York News

WASHINGTON — The number of women arrested for drunken driving has jumped nearly 30 percent in the past decade, a dangerous trend that was all to...

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Is Stimulus Spending Fast or Slow?

ProPublica | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stimulus, Transportation Department, Economy, Ray Lahood, Economic Stimulus Package, Politics News
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To date, the department has obligated $15.7 billion, according to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's latest blog post last night. That is a third of the department's overall stimulus budget.

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Airline Quality Was Better In 2008: Study

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Aviation Institute Study, Airline Quality Study, Airlines, Airline Quality, Airline Study, Transportation Department, Slideshow, 2008 Airline Quality Report, Business News

WASHINGTON — Airlines carried fewer people last year, but did a better job for those who did fly. The rates of lost bags, late arrivals, passen...

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Yes, We Can Regulate CO2!

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Nrdc, Oil and Gas, George Bush, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Yes We Can, Carbon Dioxide, Obama, Co2, Transportration Secretary Roy LaHood, Bush-Era, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oil Industry, Transportation Department, Takepart, Kyoto Protocol, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Environment, Green News
Sarah Newman

Environmentalists are heralding Obama's decision to review the request by California and 13 other states to establish strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.

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The Traffic of Pay-to-Play Politics

Monica Youn | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: State Budgets, Money, National Infrastructure, Budget, Secretary of Transportation, Clintons, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Budget, Transportation, Infrastructure, Kennedys, Illinois Senate, Bush Administration, John Fritchey, Rod Blagojevich, Transportation Department, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Federal Highway Fund, Illinois, Blagojevich Corruption, Ray Lahood Obama, Transportration Secretary Ray LaHood, Ray Lahood, Ray Lahood Department of Transportation, Politics News
Monica Youn

The Bush Administration's DOT succeeded in knocking a sizeable hole in Illinois' ban on pay-to-play deals that the state Senate had attempted to pass in the wake of the Blagojevich scandal.

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Delta Fined For Lack Of Arrival Data

AP | Dan Caterinicchia | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: SkyWest Airlines, Delta Fines, Delta Air Lines, Comair, Transportation Department, Delta, Atlanti Southeast Airlines, Business News

Federal regulators Monday fined Delta Air Lines Inc. $115,000 for failing to respond to customer requests for on-time arrival data of its flights. Th...

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Bush Orders Transportation Sec'y To Curb Airline Delays

New York Times | MATTHEW L. WALD and JEFF BAILEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Flight Delays, Transportation Department, Faa, Business News

After years of airline delays and a truly miserable summer at the airports, President Bush publicly directed his transportation secretary today to cor...

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