(May 24, 2011) DETROIT — Oil-soaked booms from the Gulf of Mexico are providing more than enough recycled material to make a production year’s worth of air-deflecting baffles for the Chevrolet Volt, a positive outcome of the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

“GM decided to offer assistance by collecting boom material from the Gulf coast until there was no longer a need,” said John Bradburn, GM’s manager of waste-reduction efforts.

(May 24, 2011) CHICAGO (PRNewswire) — Mitsubishi has teamed up with one of America's leading confectionaries, the Jelly Belly Candy Company, in a novel promotion to show Chicagoans the sweeter side of sustainable transportation.

(May 23, 2011) DETROIT (PRNewswire) — There's good news for the U.S. Big Three automakers and not so good news for the Big Three Japanese automakers in the 11th annual study of working relations between the six North American automakers and their suppliers. 

As a group, the US auto-makers continue to show steady improvement, and the Japanese automakers continue to slip.

(May 22, 2011) ARLINGTON, Va. (PRNewswire-USNewswire) — After a dip during the recent recession, the U.S. freight economy, particularly for trucking, is projected to grow significantly in the years ahead, according to American Trucking Associations' U.S. Freight Transportation Forecast to 2022.

The forecast, the product of a collaboration between ATA, IHS Global Insight and Martin Labbe Associates, lays out the current state of the freight economy where trucking is the leading mode of transportation and projects an even more robust role for trucks in the future.