Rail and Chemical Companies Recognized By National Program for Efforts to...
TRANSCAER (Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response) is recognizing seven rail transport and chemical companies that are helping communities prepare for and respond to possible...
View ArticleTRANSCAER® Rolls Out Nationwide Safety Training Tour
Hands-on training program will target emergency response to anhydrous ammonia incidents.
View ArticleTRANSCAER® Anhydrous Ammonia Training Tour Materials Available Online
As a supplement to its nationwide training tour to educate safety officials on how to respond to anhydrous ammonia release incidents, the TRANSCAER® Anhydrous Ammonia Training Tour training materials...
View ArticleACC Urges Surface Transportation Board to Address Anti-Competitive Freight...
In testimony today before the U.S. Surface Transportation Board during a hearing on the state of competition in the freight rail industry, American Chemistry Council’s Senior Director of Regulatory and...
View ArticleACC and Chlorine Institute Urge STB to Reject Proposal That Would Undermine...
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) and Chlorine Institute (CI) issued the following statement on comments filed by several associations representing shippers (including ACC and CI) with the Surface...
View ArticleACC Urges Congress to Adopt Key Safety Provisions to Transportation Bill
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement urging Congress to adopt key safety provisions to the Transportation Bill.
View ArticleACC Responds To Surface Transportation Board's (STB) Rail Competition...
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) announcement of two initiatives to explore ways to protect captive shippers...
View ArticleACC Urges More Action to Promote Competitive Freight Rail Service
ACC, along with other shipper groups, recently submitted comments urging the STB to adopt policies that promote an economically strong and competitive freight rail system and that foster a stronger...
View ArticleNew Research: The Lack of Rail Competition and Rising Rail Rates Harm...
Higher rail freight rates driven by a lack of access to competitive rail service are negatively impacting chemical and plastic shippers as well as the U.S. economy according to a new economic study and...
View ArticleACC Urges STB to Take Action on Reforms to Increase Access to Competitive...
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) filed comments with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that urge the Agency to take action on reforms that would benefit U.S. manufacturing and the economy by...
View ArticleACC Welcomes Freight Rail Antitrust Legislation Introduced by Senator...
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Senator David Vitter (R-LA) introduced legislation to remove the freight rail industry’s obsolete exemptions from the nation’s antitrust laws to help promote fairness...
View ArticleAnti-Competitive Freight Rail Practices Continue as Federal Court Reviews...
The American Chemistry Council issued the following statement regarding the antitrust case brought by rail freight shippers against the four major U.S. railroads – Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern...
View ArticleSTB Decision Will Help Support the Safe Shipment of Chemicals That Are...
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement on a ruling by the Surface Transportation Board (STB) this week. The STB rejected Union Pacific’s (UP) proposed tariff on Toxic...
View ArticleNew Research Shows Freight Rail Rates Skyrocketed Following Railroad Industry...
ACC urges STB to take action and adopt competitive switching reforms.
View ArticleACC Welcomes Foxx as New Secretary of Transportation
Anthony Foxx, former Charlotte Mayor, was sworn in at a special ceremony by Vice President Joe Biden today as the new Secretary of Transportation.
View ArticleACC: STB Decision on Rail Policy Reforms Is a Step Forward, but More Needs to...
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement on the recent decision by the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in docket Ex Parte 715, which examined an array of rate complaint...
View ArticleACC Responds to STB's New Disclosure Requirements for Interchange Agreements
ACC welcomes the STB’s new disclosure requirements that will help shine a light on railroad agreements that limit access to competitive freight rail service.
View ArticleACC Statement on Deb Miller Nomination to the Surface Transportation Board
We congratulate Deb Miller on her nomination to the Surface Transportation Board (STB). Ms. Miller has a long career in public service and valuable experience from her work on transportation policy in...
View ArticleSound Freight Transportation Policies Are Key to Growing Chemical Industry...
Sound Freight Transportation Policies Are Key to Growing Chemical Industry and U.S. Economy
View ArticleACC Comments on Congressional Report on the State of Freight Transportation...
The U.S. chemical industry is a major user of our nation’s freight system and is committed to working with Congress to pursue commonsense solutions to decrease the need for regulation by increasing...
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