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Union Pacific (UP) has wasted little time in returning to embargo tactics, and the US Surface Transportation Board (STB) is becoming concerned.
Following a two-day hearing in mid-December, over its massive use of embargoes to deal with congestion issues, UP supremo Lance Fritz pledged to hit the pause button on them, but less than a fortnight later the railway was at it again.
On 29 December, it announced an embargo in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, citing severe weather events and arctic temperatures. ...
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