How Did the Senate’s 2008 Climate Bill Treat Transportation?

(A) To mitigate impacts on low-income energy consumers.

(B) To promote energy efficiency (including supportof electricity and natural gas demand reduction, waste minimization,and recycling programs)

(C) To promote investment in nonemittingelectricity generation technology, including planning for the siting offacilities employing that technology in States (including territorialwaters of States).

(D) To improve public transportation and passenger rail service and otherwise promote reductions in vehicle miles traveled.

(E) To encourage advances in energy technology that reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.

(F) To address local or regional impacts of climatechange, including by accommodating, protecting, or relocating affectedcommunities and public infrastructure.

(G) To collect, evaluate, disseminate, and useinformation necessary for affected coastal communities to adapt toclimate change (such as information derived from inundation predictionsystems).

(H) To mitigate obstacles to investment by newentrants in electricity generation markets and energy-intensivemanufacturing sectors.

(I) To address local or regional impacts of climate change policy, including providing assistance to displaced workers.

(J) To mitigate impacts on energy-intensive industries in internationally competitive markets.

(K) To reduce hazardous fuels, and to prevent and suppress wildland fire.

(L) To fund rural, municipal, and agricultural water projects that are consistent with the sustainable use of water resources.

(M) To fund any other purpose the States determine to be necessary to mitigate any negative economic impacts as a result of --(i) global warming; or (ii) new regulatory requirements as a result of this Act.