FEDERAL ACTION

Report Highlights How State DOTs Deliver the Benefits of Transportation – AASHTO Executive Director

Biden Harris Administration Reveals Infrastructure Priorities – AASHTO Journal


Republicans tell Buttigieg that Biden’s infrastructure bill should focus on roads, rail, ports – not climate or social justice – USA Today

Democrats offer priorities via stand-alone infrastructure bills – Roll Call

U.S. Oil Lobby Backs Carbon Fee as Substitute for Regulation – Bloomberg Green

COVID-19

COVID-19 & Transportation Funding in Illinois: One Year Later – Illinois Economic Policy Institute (Link to study pdf)

INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Caltrans: Rebuilt Section of Highway 1 Could ‘Last for Centuries’ – AASHTO Journal

Can the electrical grid handle a boom in electric vehicles? – Detroit Free Press

How to get started with measuring sustainability – Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Los Angeles now has a road map for 100% renewable energy – Los Angeles Times

Governors Rev Up Momentum on Infrastructure – National Governors Association (Press release)

AIR QUALITY

Cargo bikes – The Future of Zero Emission Last-mile Deliveries – Air Quality News

Coalition Asks Biden Administration to Reduce Truck Emissions by Fall 2022 – Transport Topics

City sets lofty goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% over next 30 years – KOLN-TV

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Priority Shift: Great Lakes exec moves environmental justice to top of list – Great Lakes Now

Environmental Justice: Evaluating Zip Codes And Pollution Burdens – Science Friday

Lawmakers seek pause on plans to overhaul Massachusetts transportation system that provides rides to low-income and disabled residents – State House News Service

NATURAL RESOURCES

With Emphasis on Climate Change, St. Lawrence Seaway Opens for 63rd Season – Spectrum News

What’s that noise? ‘Sound cannons’ used to scare off birds near Santa Maria strawberry farms – KSBY-TV

Connecticut begins food waste recycling push to help solve waste disposal crisis – Hartford Courant

Thousands of acres must be restored to save declining species of birds on Lake Erie – Columbus Dispatch

The nation’s water infrastructure cannot be graded on a sliding scale – Penn Live/Patriot-News (Opinion)

CULTURAL RESOURCES

‘When Seattle Shakes’ online exhibition explores historical preservation and seismic risks – Seattle Times

HEALTH AND HUMAN ENVIRONMENT/ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

Lawmakers Consider Update For Oregon’s Groundbreaking Bike Bill – Oregon Public Broadcasting

City officials attempting to ‘calm’ traffic down for pedestrians, bicyclists – Williamsport Sun-Gazette

Disabled Clark County residents join statewide demand for more sidewalks – Clark County Today

TRB RESOURCES/ANNOUNCEMENTS

An Update on Public Transportation’s Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions – TCRP

New Biennial Review Says Stronger Science Support Needed as Everglades Restoration Pivots from Planning to Operations – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Press release)

FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES

Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions on Proposed Highway in Idaho – FHWA (Notice of limitation on claims for judicial review of actions by FHWA)

Drawbridge Operation Regulation; Little Manatee River, Ruskin, Hillsborough County Coast Guard (Final rule)

Seaway Regulations and Rules – Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (Final rule)

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement for the Charleston Peninsula Coastal Flood Risk Management Study, Charleston County, South Carolina U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Notice)

South Carolina: Final Approval of State Underground Storage Tank Program Revisions, Codification, and Incorporation by Reference – EPA (Direct final rule)

Brownfields Stakeholder Discussion and Listening Session With Nonprofit Organizations and Community Foundations – EPA (Notice)

Air Plan Approval; Maine; Removal of Reliance on Reformulated Gasoline in the Southern Counties of Maine – EPA (Proposed rule)

Approval and Promulgation of State Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; North Dakota; Control of Emissions From Existing Municipal Solid Waste Landfills; Control of Emissions From Existing Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Unit – EPA (Proposed rule)

Drawbridge Operation Regulation; New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway, Point Pleasant, NJ – Coast Guard (Notice of proposed rulemaking)

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC; Notice of Request for Extension of TimeFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (Notice)

Review and Approval of Projects – Susquehanna River Basin Commission (Notice of proposed rulemaking; notice of public hearing)