The Surface Transportation Board has combined its two legal offices into one and named Anika Cooper as chief counsel, the board has announced. The changes were announced Monday (Aug. 4, 2025), but ...

Last month, Union Pacific said it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S.

The Surface Transportation Board is seeking comments from shippers, carriers, and others on first-mile/last-mile (FMLM) service, which occurs when railcars are moved between a local railroad ...

July 10, 2025 Regulatory STB: Nominations Welcome for RSTAC, RETAC The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory ...

A federal transportation agency is requesting comments on a proposal to include additional information with rail carriers’ invoices. In a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking announced ...

Evergy is claiming $55 million in damages after BNSF failed to deliver coal in 2022, the utility company said in a complaint ...

The Surface Transportation Board [http://www.stb.dot.gov]of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of ...

The Surface Transportation Board will require railroads to submit service recovery plans and provide additional data and regular progress reports on rail service, operations and employment.

The Washington, D.C.-based Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving railroad rate and service disputes and ...

Surface Transportation Board Docket No. FD 36369, Association of American Railroads—Petition for Declaratory Order, Served Dec. 30, 2020.

The federal Surface Transportation Board has declined to issue a declaratory order requested almost three years ago by the North County Transit District that would give the local agency clear ...