Full Title: States on the Hot Seat: State Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation
Date: 06/14/2016
Speaker: Rebecca Lewis, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Transportation accounts for approximately 33 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. While the federal government issued notice of a proposed rule that would include a GHG reduction performance measure for the first time, over the past decade, several innovative states have offered leadership on policies aimed at reducing GHG through transportation.
A recent project examines innovative policies in four such states: California, Maryland, Oregon and Washington. This webinar will:
Highlight policy approaches for reducing GHG from transportation,
Offer an assessment of strengths and weaknesses of various policy approaches, and
Provide recommendations for a broad range of practitioners including state and regional planners, federal staff, and advocates.
Key takeaways focus on how state, federal and metropolitan policy organizations can use transportation and land use plans to achieve GHG reduction goals.
This research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) at Portland State University - a U.S. Department of Transportation national university transportation center (UTC) funded by the FAST Act.
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Keywords: climate crisis, emissions, greenhouses gases
