{"id":21940,"date":"2018-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natso.com\/administration-repeals-greenhouse-gas-performance-measure\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:00:25","slug":"administration-repeals-greenhouse-gas-performance-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/administration-repeals-greenhouse-gas-performance-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Administration Repeals Greenhouse Gas Performance Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ongoing efforts to relax Obama-era climate efforts,&nbsp;the Trump Administration on May 29 repealed a rule that required&nbsp;recipients of federal transportation dollars &#8212; mostly states, cities, and metropolitan planning areas &#8212; to measure greenhouse gas emissions when planning transportation projects.<\/p>\n<p>The rule change removes the obligation to measure greenhouse gas emissions from fuel use by vehicles that would be associated with new transportation projects.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/tpm\/rule\/ghg.pdf\">Link to Final Rule<\/a>]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/tpm\/rule\/ghg.pdf\" rel=\"external\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finalized in the last days of the Obama Administration, the greenhouse gas performance measure was&nbsp;designed to make state and regional infrastructure planners account for climate impacts to encourage &#8220;smarter&#8221; transportation planning strategies, such as mass transit and electric vehicles, while discouraging sprawl-inducing exurban road projects.<\/p>\n<p>The rule required states to &#8220;evaluate and report more effectively and consistently on transportation system performance, including travel time reliability, delay hour, peak-hour congestion, freight movement and on-road mobile source emissions.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many in the transportation community said that the rule would discourage projects from generating new and wider roads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several states and cities, including California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Seattle, the Twin Cities, and Chicago, already take carbon pollution into account when developing transportation plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ongoing efforts to relax Obama-era climate efforts, the Trump Administration on May 29 repealed a rule that required recipients of federal transportation dollars &#8212; mostly states, cities, and metropolitan planning areas &#8212; 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