climate change
FedEx, Stakeholders: Investments, Partnerships Key to Tackling Climate Change
CEO Fred Smith provides virtual testimony on his FedEx's efforts to combat climate change during a hearing March 17. (House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee via YouTube)
Investing in infrastructure and adopting policies that enhance the movement of freight would help address the country’s climate change concerns, the head of FedEx Corp. told federal transportation policymakers March 17.
March 18, 2021Biden Is Betting His Whole Climate Agenda on Infrastructure
President Biden and Democrats plan to load their low-carbon energy policy into an infrastructure bill. (Doug Mills/New York Times via Bloomberg News)
Candidate Joe Biden rode into the White House promising to build back the economy after the devastation of COVID-19 with cleaner energy and a lower carbon footprint. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law March 11, however, does little in the way of fulfilling that pledge.
March 11, 2021Sen. Tom Carper: Climate Change at Heart of Infrastructure Debate
“A future of more suffering from climate change is not written in stone," says EPW Chairman Tom Carper. (Senate Environment & Public Works Committee via YouTube)
Severe-weather events that immobilize communities and cut off access to energy resources reinforce the need to boost programs designed to address climate change, the leader of the Senate’s transportation committee said.
March 10, 2021House Panel to Include Climate Policy in Infrastructure Bill, Pallone Says
"An infrastructure package similar to the Moving Forward Act from last Congress will modernize our crumbling infrastructure, help rebuild our economy and combat climate change," says New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News)
Congressional Democrats will look to include climate change-centric policies in upcoming infrastructure funding legislation, according to Frank Pallone, a top policymaker in the House of Representatives.
February 9, 2021US Senate Committee Embraces Climate Change Policy, Sen. Carper Says
"I see this crisis through the eyes of the American people, who see the effects of climate change every day, Sen. Tom Carper says. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg News)
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, says that of all the crises facing the nation, none is greater than climate change.
February 5, 2021Biden Directs Agencies to Address Climate Change
Water overflows the Tittabawassee River in Midland, Mich., on May 20, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/File/AP)
New directives approved by President Joe Biden in response to climate change set in motion an extensive environmental agenda throughout federal agencies while rolling back Trump-era guidance on permitting.
January 28, 2021Climate Change Debate Adds to Busy Fall Congressional Agenda
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg News)
By recently proposing to reduce emissions, invest in communities and add millions of new jobs, Senate Democrats intend to add climate change to the list of pertinent policy matters before Congress this fall.
August 27, 2020House Climate Change Plan Tackles Heavy-Duty Equipment at Ports
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
House Democrats say Congress should increase funding for programs at EPA and the Department of Energy to reduce emissions from equipment at ports.
July 1, 2020Northeast Governors Slow to Embrace Regional Climate Pact
Rush-hour traffic moves along the Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia in April 2019. (Jacqueline Larma/Associated Press)
Supporters of a regional pact that would tackle transportation emissions are struggling to win over several New England governors concerned that the climate change initiative will increase gas prices.
January 27, 2020Perspective: Green Shipping on the Big Blue Sea
Shipping companies are taking steps to adapt to rising sea levels and make themselves greener.
January 7, 2020