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Congress should provide at least $40 million per year for new research on climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies for surface transportation, according to a study released by the Transportation Research Board. The report recommends a "modest investment" of $40 million to $45 million per year in the next surface transportation bill to develop "best available guidance" to help mitigate emissions from transportation and adapt infrastructure to future impacts and those that already have begun. Read Full Article » [back to top]
New draft climate legislation released by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would provide about $200 million a year for diesel emissions reduction grants. Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) says that funding from the climate bill would put the program "on steroids." Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Ben W. Murch Elementary School in Washington, D.C., is honored as the 2009 recipient of the James L. Oberstar Safe Routes to School Award, a national award for outstanding achievement in implementing a Safe Routes to School Program. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a survey to help in writing a rule to strengthen stormwater standards and to establish a comprehensive stormwater program for newly developed and redeveloped sites. EPA said it intends to distribute questionnaires to owners, operators, developers, and contractors at sites under development; owners and operators of municipal separate storm sewer systems; and states and U.S. territories. Read Full Article » [back to top]
Top Obama administration officials give high marks to Senate climate change legislation, telling the Environment and Public Works Committee that the measure would create millions of jobs and would steer the nation toward renewable energy. Joining Chu and Jackson in testifying on the bill were Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff. Read Full Article » [back to top]
Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) says that Congress should take up a surface transportation reauthorization bill that includes large up-front funding early next year, making his case the same day that Congress passed a second stopgap extension of current law and funding levels. Read Full Article » [back to top]
SEATTLE-Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels sign an agreement detailing state and city obligations on a $4.2 billion project to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct portion of State Route 99 and the city's central seawall, in addition to a number of street improvements. The agreement, approved by the Seattle City Council Oct. 19, "means we will work with the city of Seattle to take down the seismically vulnerable Alaskan Way Viaduct and replace it with a bored tunnel that provides capacity for the future," Gregoire says. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The following items were recently posted on the Center website at http://environment.transportation.org. Read Full Article » [back to top]