Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy immediately moved to roll back fuel efficiency standards moments after being sworn in Tuesday. Duffy released a memo ordering the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to review a Biden era rule that requires cars to be 2 percent more fuel efficient each year.
Sean Duffy’s first big test as secretary of the Department of Transportation came just one day after he was sworn into office. A commercial jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with an Army helicopter carrying three servicemembers Wednesday night near Washington,
Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary, is facing his first major crisis just hours after his swearing-in.
The press conference ended at 1:20 a.m. on the East Coast, and Duffy was back at it at 7 a.m. Thursday morning to speak again about the worst commercial airline disaster in 16 years. He spoke at a third press conference at 11 a.m., this time following combative remarks from President Donald Trump.
Sean Duffy ordered his chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to “propose the rescission or replacement of any fuel economy standards” necessary to bring the rules in line with Trump’s priority of promoting oil and biofuel.
Facing his first crisis just two days into the job, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy touted reforms sought by the president, who has lambasted DEI policies.
Americans voted for inflation, and they're gonna get it, as the new Dept. of Transportation secretary already promised to raise fuel costs
Duffy was sworn into the Cabinet position just hours before an American Airlines passenger plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River
Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it regulates air pollution and addresses climate change.
US President Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Transportation was sworn in to his new job yesterday. And as widely expected, Secretary Sean Duffy moved to immediately rip up the nation's fuel efficiency standards.
Newly appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy wasted no time in rolling back U.S. fuel efficiency regulations.
WASHINGTON – Central Wisconsin's Sean Duffy is facing his first big test as secretary of the Department of Transportation just one day after he was sworn into office. A commercial jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with an Army helicopter carrying three servicemembers Wednesday night near Washington,