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.

The midair collision at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night has presented Sean Duffy with a major crisis just hours after he was sworn in as secretary of transportation.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a branch of the DOT, still does not have an Administrator or a Deputy Administrator.

A signed order by Sean Duffy, U.S. Transportation Secretary, on Tuesday will rescind fuel economy standards put in place by former President Joe Biden. The order directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to “reconsider the 2022 model year through 2031 model years for cars and trucks,” Reuters reported.

The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

And that would be unfortunate," the Former DOT secretary told The Verge. "The work we’ve done to make EVs more affordable is part of why there are more and more jobs being created in the industrial Midwest,

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Donald Trump’s new transportation secretary Sean Duffy approached the microphone at a press conference, as search and rescue crews scoured the Potomac River looking for survivors of a crash between a military helicopter and a commercial jet near Washington.

In one of his first acts as the newly confirmed Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), Sean Duffy has taken swift action to roll back the Biden-Harris administration’s stringent fuel economy standards for vehicles,

Sean Duffy was sworn in as Transportation Secretary on Tuesday and is now grappling with the fallout of the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S. in 23 years. Duffy was most recently the co-host of “The Bottom Line” on Fox Business,

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary, is facing his first major crisis just hours after his swearing-in.

Hours after being sworn in as the new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks.