Issues & Modes / People & the Environment
Transportation Department Outlines $20B for Transit Available This Year Through Infrastructure Law
Apr 07, 2022 | Paul LewisEven with this large amount of federal funds, current practices could eat up too much time and money. The Eno Center for...
DOT Releases Updated CAFE Standards
Apr 01, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe U.S. Department of Transportation today released a new set of automotive fuel efficiency standards for model years 2024 through...
Here’s What Biden’s Budget Would Do, and Not Do, for Climate Change
Mar 29, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe largest chunk of the $142 billion for transportation would be used to fix roads and bridges — or perhaps build new...
Guest Op-Ed: America Needs to Invest in Universal Road User Education
Mar 29, 2022 | Jonathan French, P. E.As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and over 800,000 lives lost in the U.S., the number of road user deaths could...
Why does transit infrastructure cost so much in the U.S.?
Mar 28, 2022 | Paul Lewis“We do spend a lot more money here in this country, and it seems to be particularly acute in New York. But the kind of a cost...
Senate Votes to Lift Mask Mandate in Transportation, but House Unlikely to Act
Mar 18, 2022 | Jeff DavisOn March 15, the U.S. Senate, in a bipartisan 57-40 vote, approved legislation (S. J. Res. 37) that would force the Biden...
Appeals Court Lifts Injunction, Allowing Interim Social Cost of Carbon Standard to Be Used in Rules, EIS
Mar 18, 2022 | Jeff DavisOn March 16, a federal appeals court removed an injunction that was blocking the ability of federal agencies, including the Department...
Guest Op-Ed: The Rise of Delivery as a Service
Mar 11, 2022 | Marcella KaplanEveryday life entirely changed for most when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic on March 11, 2020....
Guest Op-Ed: Alternative Traffic Enforcement to Re-Center Road Safety
Mar 04, 2022 | Ethan EbingerTransportation has become the most policed aspect of daily life in the United States. The most frequent interactions between police and...
For Pete’s Sake! Sec. Buttigieg Won’t Push Back on States that Ignore Equity, Climate Guidelines
Mar 01, 2022 | Jeff DavisThe Federal Highway Administration guidelines are, in fact, advisories that are not legally binding, as Jeff Davis of the Eno...
Federal Court Suspends “Social Cost of Carbon” Standard
Feb 18, 2022 | Jeff DavisA federal judge in Louisiana on February 11 issued an injunction halting the use of the interim “social cost of carbon” metric...
Guest Op-Ed: Reimagining Communal Growth After COVID-19
Feb 18, 2022 | Emily HennessyThe United States was built upon a foundation of social and economic inequalities whose echoes are still felt nationwide to this day....