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Today’s Headlines

Kerry reveals details of upcoming Senate climate bill (Politico) Conservatives anxiously eyeing LaHood’s next move at U.S. DOT (Amer. Spectator) Transit equity advocates painting giant red “X” on Atlanta rail cars today to protest service cuts (Creative Loafing) Portland gets $2.4m grant from feds to work on new, overhead wire-free streetcar technology (Prog. RR’ing) A … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:55 AM EDT on April 20, 2010

Kerry reveals details of upcoming Senate climate bill (Politico)
Conservatives anxiously eyeing LaHood’s next move at U.S. DOT (Amer. Spectator)
Transit equity advocates painting giant red “X” on Atlanta rail cars today to protest service cuts (Creative Loafing)
Portland gets $2.4m grant from feds to work on new, overhead wire-free streetcar technology (Prog. RR’ing)
A favorable profile of Randal O’Toole’s anti-rail proselytizing (Finance & Commerce)
A favorable profile of Shai Agassi, the Israeli businessman working on electric-car charging infrastructure (CNN)
Company finds success converting natural gas into diesel fuel for buses (NYT Blogs)
Yonah Freemark asks if the feds would know how to spend a dedicated stream of high-speed rail funding (Transport Politic)
Gov. McDonnell (R) starts an audit of Virginia’s transportation spending (Wash Biz Jrnl)
FedEx and Teamsters’ battle over union organizing could affect package transportation (WSJ)