Today’s Headlines

  • Heads up to D.C. area readers: Today is the grand opening of the BikeStation, a new outpost for bike commuters and recreational riders (NPR)
  • Shocker: When "cash for clunkers" evaporated, so did U.S. automakers’ sales gains (CNN)
  • Transportation fatalities were down 10 percent in 2008, according to federal safety regulators (Prog. Railroading)
  • A must-read for Californians: Why the Senate climate bill is really Kerry-Boxer, not Boxer-Kerry (Grist)
  • Mountain bikers make their voices heard on Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) Montana wilderness legislation (New West)

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Kerry, Hutchison, and Warner Introduce New Infrastructure Bank Bill

By Tanya Snyder |
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), along with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) just announced that they’re introducing the BUILD Act today, which would create a national infrastructure bank. They’re proposing to start the bank with $10 billion of seed money that would leverage hundreds of billions of dollars, according to their […]

Senate Climate Bill Delayed for Second Time

By Elana Schor |
Underscoring the growing intensity of the message war over climate change, Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said in a joint statement this afternoon that they would delay the unveiling of their carbon-emissions legislation until late September: Because of Senator Kennedy’s recent passing, Senator Kerry’s August hip surgery, and […]

Senate Climate Bill Leaks: The Good News and Bad News for Transport

By Elana Schor |
The Senate’s climate change legislation will finally make its debut tomorrow, courtesy of environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and foreign relations committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA). But the Washington Post has already obtained a "close-to-final" version of the bill [PDF], which provides some details but leaves unanswered the key question of how much aid […]

The Senate Climate Bill Reaches a First Milestone Today — Maybe

By Elana Schor |
The Senate environment committee is slated to begin formally voting on its climate change bill today in an atmosphere of high drama, thanks to Republican members who have vowed to boycott the proceedings in a bid to delay the legislative process. Senate environment chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), at right, with the panel’s top Republican, Jim […]