Today’s Headlines
Ahead of today’s U.S. DOT texting-while-driving summit, the Obama administration signals it’ll work to pass a national ban (NPR, US News) Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) makes the case for transportation reform being health reform — if inadvertently (Yglesias) The EPA is preparing to revise its method of measuring cars’ energy use, to prevent GM and … Continued
By
Elana Schor
7:48 AM EDT on September 30, 2009
- Ahead of today’s U.S. DOT texting-while-driving summit, the Obama administration signals it’ll work to pass a national ban (NPR, US News)
- Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) makes the case for transportation reform being health reform — if inadvertently (Yglesias)
- The EPA is preparing to revise its method of measuring cars’ energy use, to prevent GM and other electric-car developers from releasing questionable triple-digit “miles per gallon” numbers (USAT)
- The trains in Spain were anything but plain to a visiting delegation of midwestern high-speed rail planners (AP)
- Government auditors find that local highway and transit officials are having problems reporting to Washington on how they’re spending stimulus money (OMB Watch)
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