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Landmark Fifth National Climate Assessment Highlights Key Climate Change Risks and Opportunities for the Transportation Sector
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) makes historic investments to mitigate risks and reduce carbon emissions.Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Climate and Transportation Research Funding
The first-of-its-kind Department of Transportation (DOT) Climate and Transportation Research Initiative will support efforts to address climate change and transportation challengesDOT Joins Energy and Agriculture on Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge Roadmap
Outlines steps to reduce aviation emissions and meet 100% of domestic aviation fuel demand by 2050ICYMI: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Visits Idaho, Utah to Announce Historic Investments in Infrastructure Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events
Last week U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg traveled to Idaho and Utah to announce U.S. DOT’s new Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program, made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. PROTECT invests $7.3 billion over the next five years to help states and communities make their transportation infrastructure more resilient against extreme weather events like wildfires, flooding, and heat.
Biden-Harris Administration Takes Step Forward to Combat Climate Change, Announces Proposed Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Framework
WASHINGTON – Today, to advance President Biden’s commitment to combat climate change and bring down costs for families, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for states and municipalities to track and reduce...U.S. Transportation Sector: Part of the Solution
Fuel Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Motor Vehicles (2003)
Partnership for Sustainable Communities
Hearings
Administration Proposals on Climate Change and Energy Independence: Hearings Before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (2007) (PDF 6.27mb)
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
This testimony before the House Committee on...