Posted by Colin Peppard in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Today is Earth Day. With that in mind, the National Journal Transportation Experts Blog asked this week whether transportation projects need a sustainability rating system like LEED, which is used to evaluate buildings, or EPA's Energy Star program. Unfortunately, as I...
Posted by Colin Peppard in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
...even so, I was asked to post the initial response to this week's question on the National Journal Transportation Experts' Blog. The question asks how the innovative TIGER program could inform federal transportation policy reform. (I drew from my two previous...
Posted by Colin Peppard in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
Kansas City, New Orleans, and Seattle are just a few places that received some good news from the US Department of Transportation today. Each will receive a grant to build innovative transportation projects as part of the $1.5 billion TIGER...
Posted by Colin Peppard in U.S. Law and Policy
A week after President Obama signaled that he would call for an overall 3-year budget freeze (exempting military/defense/security and entitlement programs), he followed through today, releasing a budget that shifts resources into priority programs and putting a long list of other...
Posted by Colin Peppard in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Well, one of them anyway... Today, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a big move toward putting transit on a more level playing field in federal transportation funding decisions, while encouraging communities to work to maximize the "livability" benefits of transit...
Posted by Colin Peppard in U.S. Law and Policy
Mary Peters, who was Secretary of Transportation under President Bush posted an interesting item on the National Review Online site last week. Writing about the importance of what she considers a strong transportation plank in VA Governor-elect Bob McDonnell's campaign plan, she said: "...McDonnell's...
Posted by Colin Peppard in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
In a previous post, I asked why we don't consider the federal transportation bill a major energy bill. Leaving that question aside, on Friday, Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced a bill that couldn't be mistaken for anything else:...
