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…
House Republicans rolled out parts of a $260 billion transportation infrastructure bill Tuesday, casting the legislation as a major vehicle for job creation and energy production. The five-year bill reauthorizes highway, transit and safety programs but also eliminates or consolidates dozens of existing federal functions. Supporters said its designed to streamline federally-funded projects, cut bureaucratic…
President Obama is making it clear he won’t miss an opportunity to push the narrative that bailing out Detroit was the right thing to do (particularly since Romney didn’t want to.) The Preisdent walked into the showroom of the 70th annual Washington Auto Show this afternoon, where he inspected about 15 new electric and hybrid…
(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…
“Bouncy and peppy” is the way Houston electric car dealer Rick Ehrlich describes the small, three-wheeled pickup that sits outside his Houston electric car business. “It’s a funny little truck,” adds Ehrlich as we take it for a spin around the parking lot. It’s a no-frills Zap pickup that weighs about 1800 pounds. It’s…
(Billings, MT – YPR) – Montana’s Congressional delegation is critical of President Barack Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. (See a map of proposed pipeline here and here.) Senator Max Baucus, D-MT, pledged to continue to fight for approval of the pipeline that would cross Montana from the oil tar sand fields in…
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…
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…
UPDATED WITH TRANSCRIPT: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to build, build, build. In his state of the state address Wednesday, he put forth a $15 billion plan to repair roads, bridges, parks, flood control, and municipal water systems. (Transcript of his actual remarks below) Cuomo did not specifically refer to transit projects, (in fact,…
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