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The Federal Transit Administration is seeking to expand the radius within which bicycle and pedestrian projects near public transportation facilities will be eligible for FTA funding, the agency says. Read Full Article » [back to top]
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa launches an initiative to accelerate a series of 30-year transit projects for completion in 10 years. "Thirty years is too long to wait when we can build all 12 projects in the next decade," Villaraigosa says. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Department of Transportation is working closely with key Senate and House lawmakers and will have a proposal ready should Congress decide to tackle a long-term rewrite of highway and transit policy in early 2010, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says. DOT also will hold a series of open meetings to receive stakeholder and public opinion on transportation policy and strategy, beginning in early December and spread out over 90 days. Read Full Article » [back to top]
Two public transportation agencies were recognized by the Federal Transit Administration for excellence in the preparation of environmental documents at the 2009 American Public Transportation Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla., the agency announces. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Environmental Protection Agency in 2008 improperly denied a request seeking federal preemption of state rules governing air pollutant emissions from nonroad engines, a trade group for construction companies tell a federal appeals court. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Environmental Protection Agency and environmental advocates asks federal appellate judges to hold in abeyance a lawsuit challenging the air quality standards for ozone set by the Bush administration while the agency reconsiders the standards. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Environmental Protection Agency designates all or portions of 120 counties in 18 states as not in attainment of the agency's 24-hour air quality standards for fine particles. Read Full Article » [back to top]
EPA has sent to the White House a draft finding on whether greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks endanger public health and the environment. The finding would require EPA to regulate those emissions. EPA has proposed limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks and plans to finalize the limits by the end of March, but it must first finalize the endangerment finding. Read Full Article » [back to top]
Environmental organizations and other supporters of a new international climate agreement say they do not expect the more than 190 countries meeting in Copenhagen to finalize a legally binding agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol's emissions targets and for the first time include emissions reductions targets for the United States and new commitments from China. Read Full Article » [back to top]
The Environmental Protection Agency expects to propose in 2010 tougher controls on runoff from urban and suburban areas and from concentrated animal feeding operations in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, a senior EPA official announces. Read Full Article » [back to top]
SINGAPORE-A survey of 270 sustainability experts from around the world finds most regard Germany as today's green technology leader but expect it to be supplanted over the next 10 years by the United States and China. 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]