Transportation Decarbonization Briefing

With the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the United States made one of the largest increases in funding for transportation infrastructure in recent history. However, while this bill had landmark funding, it preserved status quo policy that incentivizes states to build projects that increase greenhouse gases and the expensive liabilities they must maintain into the future. Further, those same emissions-increasing highway expansion projects often come with harmful impacts for communities that are most vulnerable and historically disadvantaged.

Reflecting on the ongoing deployment of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, this briefing seeks to consider where the United States needs to be headed to meet its emissions reduction goals in its most emitting sector, how the infrastructure law has been spent by states so far, and why the benefits of making sustainable transportation viable will have benefits far beyond reduced emissions.  

WHO: Taylor Reich (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy), Corrigan Salerno (Transportation for America), Miguel Moravec (Rocky Mountain Institute), Katie Jones (Move Minnesota)