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Housing starts fell 5.9% in February, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

While the air at the Port of Los Angeles is cleaner, the owners of than two-thirds of the 2,200 drayage trucks purchased with $20,000 in port emissions reduction incentive grants face financial penalties because their trucks will not make the required minimum 300 gate moves during their first year of operation, port officials said.

Congress should include comprehensive funding policies in the upcoming transportation reauthorization bill both to modernize freight transportation and reduce diesel emissions, an environmental group said in a new report.

Senate Democrats overcame a Republican filibuster of a bill aimed at decreasing unemployment that includes a long extension of the federal highway program.

The Federal Reserve voted for the 11th straight time Tuesday to keep a key U.S. interest rate at a record low “target range” of zero to 0.25%.

Union Pacific’s chief executive officer, Jim Young, said shipments carried by the nation’s biggest freight railroad are stronger than expected this year but still a long way from full recovery, the Associated Press reported.

Heavy rain from the mid-Atlantic north to New England is causing flooded roads and travel disruptions, news services reported Monday.

Industrial production rose 0.1% in February, the eighth straight gain, the Federal Reserve said Monday.