The House Ways and Means Committee voted to to remove funding for transit from the highway trust fund by a 20 to 17 vote. The vote was mostly along party lines, with two Republicans voting against it. In his opening statement, House Ways and Means Committee Chair David Camp (R-MI) said: “The Congressional Budget Office…
The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
(Michael Grabell, ProPublica) [1]This story was adapted from “Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History [1],” which will be published Tuesday by PublicAffairs. A common criticism of President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package has been that it failed to produce anything – that while the New…
The NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority says blasting for the creation of the Second Avenue subway line has not increased pollution. But something else apparently did elevate some pollutants during the time the air was being tested. The MTA commissioned the study from private firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. It did find elevated levels of three pollutants…
UPDATED WITH STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASE: From the White House: Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline Earlier today, I received the Secretary of State’s recommendation on the pending application for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by…
NPR’s got the roundup of news stories on the pipeline’s demise: Several news outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will reject TransCanada’s proposal to run an oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. The Washington Post reports the administration will make it official later today and will allow TransCanada to reapply once it has a…
Oakland has the fifth busiest port in the country. According to the Port of Oakland, they support between 50,000 and 73,000 jobs in Northern California, making it one of the Bay Area’s biggest economic engines. The Port of Oakland says that economic development is its primary driver, but the truck drivers who make a living…
From the the White House: Today, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a pilot project aimed at expediting the environmental reviews for high-speed passenger rail service in the Northeast Corridor through an innovative and more efficient process. Through this pilot project, CEQ and DOT will…
One of the expenses truckers face is paying to upgrade their rigs to meet new environmental emissions regulations for diesel engines. California has the strictest gasoline emissions regulations in the country. The “smog check” is a consuming ritual known to every Californian. Until very recently, diesel engines on freight trucks – big rigs that haul…
(New York, NY – WNYC) If the NY MTA is on a ten-mile march toward cashless tolling on its nine bridges and crossings, it has, roughly speaking, just passed the two mile mark and is going strong. But authority spokesman Judie Glave insists it could still quit any time. That’s a far cry from my…
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