The U.S. president met with the auto industry May 11. Automakers wants to relax the federal fuel economy standards, but not so much that they provoke a legal fight with California, which has power to impose its own stricter tailpipe pollution limits
A Tesla Model S crashed into a truck travelling 97 km per hour near Salt Lake City, Utah., May 11. Investigators are trying to determine whether the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature was engaged during the accident
Federal law and U.S. Supreme Court decisions require the EPA to focus on public health, not costs, in setting limits for pollution under the Clean Air Act. Pruitt is being accused of “stacking the deck on behalf of industry”
Representatives from 10 car makers will meet the U.S. President and cabinet officials May 11
Statistics Canada released a new jobs report May 11 that showed average hourly wages in April were 3.6 per cent higher than they were a year earlier. The unemployment rate stayed at its record low for a third-straight month
The Canadian Foreign Affairs minister attended a discussion with top U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill
A May 2 fire at a magnesium auto parts plant in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, is causing severe supply chain problems for Ford, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors. Ford has temporarily laid off 7,600 workers
Metals firms Alcoa Inc. and Rio Tinto Group are teaming up with tech giant Apple and the Quebec and federal governments to commercialize a process that eliminates harmful emissions from smelting by instead producing oxygen
Airbus, Total SA, PSA Peugeot Citroen and Siemens all do business in Iran
Under the agreement, the state-controlled Korea Development Bank will inject US$750 million into GM Korea while General Motors will provide US$3.6 billion in fresh loans for capital spending for the next 10 years
