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In Latest Work to Advance Rail and Hazmat Safety Efforts, USDOT Announces Safety Funding for First Responder Training and Response
In the weeks following the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, USDOT has laid out a set of sweeping reforms to rail safety and gotten all major freight railroads to join a confidential safety reporting program for employeesSt. Lawrence Seaway Begins Navigation Season
The St. Lawrence Seaway is a Key Link in the North American Supply Chain, Moves Tens of Millions of Tons of Goods Each YearBiden-Harris Administration Funds Innovative Projects to Create Safer, More Equitable, Transportation Systems
First round of grant awards, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, supports projects to improve worker safety, make transit more reliable, and support local business districtsUSDOT Announces State and Local Funding to Improve Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Safety Nationwide
Funding available to train firefighters and other first responders as well as support States and localities for hazardous material safetySecretary Buttigieg Remarks at FAA Safety Summit
Well, I'm very glad to see a full house and an overflow crowd on a very important day, talking about a very important subject. And I appreciate everybody gathering here.
I want to start by acknowledging and thanking our FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen for your tremendous work and...
Secretary Buttigieg Delivers Remarks on Reconnecting Communities in Buffalo, New York
Well thank you very much, Leader Schumer, for the kind words, and most importantly, for making sure that this would be the outset of America's infrastructure decade, by getting that extraordinary Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed. We would not be here—I just want to be sure everybody...
Secretary Buttigieg Remarks at EV Battery Plant Site - DeSoto, Kansas
Well, thanks so much first of all to Representative Davids for your friendship, for your leadership. She is somebody who you should know is relentlessly -- whether it's, you know, naturally in the flow of conversation or not -- is relentlessly advocating for this district and for this community...