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A labor standoff at ports along the West Coast is threatening the flow of cargo as docks are being closed to incoming ships.
Twenty-nine ports in states from Washington to California that normally process 340 million tons of cargo packages per year that are later shipped via truck and rail to cities across the country are shutting down for the weekend due to labor unrest.
Lawmakers are calling for the White House to intervene to prevent the shutdown from continuing past Monday.
The United States on Wednesday launched a legal challenge to Chinese export subsidies supporting billions of dollars of exports across a wide swathe of industries from steel to shrimp.
US trade representative Michael Froman said Chinese companies in designated export hubs benefited from free or subsidised services, cash grants and other incentives which gave their products an unfair advantage.
A bipartisan coalition of members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Feb. 4 to overhaul the current Renewable Fuel Standard regulations and its outdated ethanol mandates.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and 40 co-sponsors introduced the Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act of 2015, which includes provisions to recognize that fuel usage has changed since the original legislation was passed in 2005 and the provisions in the bill, especially those requiring higher concentrations of ethanol, are outdated.
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to put the House on record urging President Obama to step in and end a labor dispute snarling West Coast ports if there isn't an agreement soon.
"This is one of the gravest threats to our nation right now," said four House members who have drafted a bipartisan resolution. "We are seeing businesses, farmers,and manufacturers affected all across the country. The slowdown is not just a West Coast problem, but a national problem."
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans and Democrats are working together to reach a rapid resolution of a labor dispute that's clogging West Coast ports.
With crop exports from regions like the Pacific Northwest and California's Central Valley particularly at risk, more than a dozen lawmakers united Thursday in support of port peace. If nothing else, the rare show of bipartisanship underscored the enduring importance of maritime trade.
WASHINGTON--The U.S. opened a new front in the long-running trade conflict with China, challenging a broad program Beijing uses to subsidize export businesses.
The new challenge at the World Trade Organization is part of the Obama administration's efforts to step up enforcement of trade rules to win support for its efforts to conclude a new trade agreement with Pacific countries.
President Barack Obama last month warned that the new bloc under negotiation, which includes Japan but not China, is important to prevent Beijing from writing the rules of trade in the Pacific area.
Ooops! They did it again. Representatives Goodlatte, Welch, Womack andCosta are back with their bill to reform the Renewable Fuel Standards. It's goes by the more formal name and less descriptive name; H.R. 703. It was introduced as legislation on Feb 4, 2015.
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans pushed through two bills this week designed to undermine key environmental and financial regulations by jamming federal courts with lawsuits.
Reuters writer Chris Prentice reported yesterday that, "A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers will begin their second attempt on Wednesday to introduce a bill that would reform the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program in the United States, targeting an end to ethanol fuel-blending mandates.
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to weigh changes to the various biofuel blending requirements in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for 2014, there are a few bills before Congress that aim to push its hand on ethanol.
The most recent--the Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act of 2015--would place a 10% blending cap on conventional gasoline, a move that has earned the endorsement of at least one major boating industry group.
Local, state and federal leaders gathered Saturday at The Fresno Center to address recent immigration enforcement actions that have caused widespread fear and disruption in Central Valley immigrant communities.
SACRAMENTO, California — California farmers — some of President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters in the deep blue state — are sticking with him, even after he wasted their water.
The head of Customs and Border Patrol told Fresno’s democratic congressman that the immigration enforcement operation it carried out in the Central Valley this week has concluded and was confined to Kern County, the U.S. representative said Saturday during a news conference.
(Inside California Politics) — Congressman Jim Costa, D-Fresno, joined Inside California Politics co-host Frank Buckley to discuss President Biden’s executive actio
MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Traveling to Yosemite National Park as a group is now easier for people who live in Fresno, or visit the city.
Four brand new YARTS buses are now available, extending the Highway 41 corridor.
"There was absolutely no way, that we could pass up the opportunity to ensure that our residents here in Fresno, as well as those passing through our airport, and visiting would not have the ability to access the gem that we have in Yosemite," said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.