House Transportation bill headed into train wreck due to extreme right-wingers

The transportation bills being considered by the Senate and House are operating in different universes, with the Senate following the usual bi-partisan process to create good transportation policy, and the Republican-dominated House larding their bill with extreme right wing ideology that would doom mass transit systems, gut environmental review processes, and fundamentally change transportation system funding…

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NRDC says to Speaker Boehner’s energy plan, don’t drill and drive

According to the NRDC, House Speaker Boehner wants to steer America onto a disastrous transportation policy path, that makes America’s energy security and environmental problems worse, is financially dangerous, and leaves the nation’s highway system subject to political manipulation akin to taking a road to nowhere. On Feb 2 the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure…

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A Dirty Little Footnote to the Energy Bill

A Dirty Little Footnote to the Energy Bill ( By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, Published: April 15, 2005, NYTIMES.COM) This article concerns itself with a gasoline additive, methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). The additive is the subject of a lot of support in Congress, partly because it is made from methanol, derived…

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