On January 10, 2023, the Biden-Harris administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization (“Blueprint”), representing a major step in advancing the president’s clean transportation agenda and addressing the growing climate crisis caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Blueprint arrives as preliminary U.S. carbon-emissions data for 2022 show yet another year of increased emissions, indicating that the country is not on course to meet its commitment under the Paris Agreement to halve economy-wide emissions by 2030.
The Blueprint, jointly developed by the U.S. departments of Energy (DOE), Transportation (DOT), Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stems from a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by the four agencies last September to formalize their commitment to aggressively reducing GHG emissions in the transportation sector, the largest source of emissions in the United States.
By Frank Liu on 01.19.2023
Nossaman LLP