The plan outlines the department’s key priorities in building resilient infrastructure and ensuring environmental justice in historically disinvested communities.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a 2024-2027 Climate Adaptation Plan aimed at building resilient infrastructure, integrating climate risk into its operations, and ensuring environmental justice. The agency’s focus on integrating environmental justice is designed to ensure across its programs and strengthen vulnerable communities.
According to an article in Global Railway Review, “The CAP introduces initiatives to strengthen infrastructure resilience and support vulnerable communities” that include a Climate Hazard Exposure and Resilience (CHER) Tool and the PROTECT program, which “supports resilience projects like evacuation routes and coastal defenses to protect infrastructure from extreme weather.”
The CAP prioritizes four key areas: investment in climate-smart infrastructure, linking climate resilience and environmental justice, leveraging federal climate data, and reducing climate impacts on federal assets.
FULL STORY: USDOT unveils Climate Adaptation Plan 2024-2027
FEMA Resilience Program Cuts Grant Funding
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US Senate Reverses California EV Mandate
The state planned to phase out the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035, a goal some carmakers deemed impossible to meet.
Trump Cuts Decimate Mapping Agency
The National Geodetic Survey maintains and updates critical spatial reference systems used extensively in both the public and private sectors.
Washington Passes First US ‘Shared Streets’ Law
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