News & Analysis as of

Transportation Industry Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Haynes Boone

EPA Proposes Repeal of Legal Foundation for Greenhouse Gas Rules

Haynes Boone on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a major shift in regulatory policy—to rescind the agency’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding” and to repeal all resulting emission standards for new motor vehicles and...more

Jones Day

EPA Initiates Rulemaking to Eliminate the 2009 GHG Endangerment Finding

Jones Day on

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") proposes rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which underpins greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act....more

Benesch

Trump’s Emissions Rollback: What Motor Carriers & Private Fleets Must Know

Benesch on

President Trump took steps to dismantle California’s vehicle emissions standards on June 12, 2025, by signing three Congressional Review Act (“CRA”) resolutions revoking California’s waiver under the Clean Air Act. The waiver...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Study on RNG health benefits for heavy duty vehicles

Baker Botts L.L.P. on

Energy Vision performed an assessment of the health benefits of replacing older diesel trucks with new models fueled by renewable diesel, renewable natural gas, or electricity. The assessment finds that RNG-powered vehicles...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement/Assessing Performance of the National Highway System: Federal Highway Administration Rule...

The Federal Highway Administration (“FHA”) published a final rule that repeals the requirement that state Departments of Transportation (“DOTs”) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (“MPOs”) undertake certain greenhouse...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Department of Transportation Issues Sweeping Changes to Policies and Programs

Holland & Knight LLP on

The newly confirmed U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy issued a new order and memorandum on Jan. 29, 2025, outlining significant policy shifts aimed at implementing several of the Trump...more

Benesch

Colorado LER Reporting Deadline Extended for Brokers, Motor Carriers, Freight Forwarders & Private Fleets

Benesch on

Motor carriers, brokers, freight forwarders and private fleets that are required to comply with Colorado’s new Large Entity Reporting (“LER”) requirement, a relatively unpublicized new regulatory measure in the State of...more

Goldberg Segalla

California Withdraws EPA Waiver Request for Zero-Emission Advanced Clean Fleet Regulations

Goldberg Segalla on

California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) on Jan. 13 sent a letter to withdraw its request to the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Sections 209(b) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for a federal waiver that would require...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Fedtrade Podcast - Mike Papineau, CEO of RideFlag Technologies

We recently interviewed Mike Papineau, CEO of RideFlag Technologies in Ontario, Canada for our Fedtrade® podcast. RideFlag has successfully partnered with highway systems across the United States to validate passenger count...more

BakerHostetler

Regulating Automotive Emissions: Part V - The Future of Mobile Source Enforcement

BakerHostetler on

Previously we’ve reviewed overarching expectations of the second Trump Administration, how the Trump Administration will act on California’s emissions waivers, the steps the Trump Administration is likely to take with respect...more

BCLP

Low Carbon Hydrogen in the UK - a Universal Solution?

BCLP on

The scaling up of low carbon hydrogen technologies will be crucial for achieving the UK’s Net Zero target by 2050 and a sustainable energy future. Historically, hydrogen has been produced from fossil fuels and utilised across...more

Allen Matkins

California Withdraws Clean Air Act Waiver Requests for Vehicle Emissions Standards

Allen Matkins on

On Monday, January 13, 2025, California withdrew requests for Clean Air Act waivers from the EPA needed to support four recently adopted vehicle emissions regulations: 1) the Advanced Clean Fleets Regulations; 2) the In-Use...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Pumping the Brakes? Outlook for State and Federal Vehicle, Engine, and Equipment Emissions Standards

Foley & Lardner LLP on

Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top With the start of the second Trump administration just over a week away, there are many uncertainties with respect to how the new administration will regulate vehicle,...more

Hogan Lovells

DOE announces over $3.5 billion in carbon management funding opportunities

Hogan Lovells on

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced three funding opportunities to develop carbon capture and transport technologies, totaling over $3.5 billion in investment. These opportunities offer significant support for...more

BakerHostetler

Regulating Automotive Emissions: Part I - What to Expect Under the Second Trump Administration

BakerHostetler on

On the day of his inauguration, President Joe Biden issued a historic number of executive orders, several of which focused on overturning actions taken by the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We...more

Goldberg Segalla

What’s Next For NEPA?

Goldberg Segalla on

The U.S. Supreme Court last week scheduled oral arguments for December 10 in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, a highly anticipated case that focuses on whether a federal agency should be required to...more

Alston & Bird

California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation Under Attack

Alston & Bird on

California’s ambitious zero-emission, heavy-duty truck regulations face new legal challenges. Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group outlines the status of California’s Advanced Clean Fleet (ACF) Regulation,...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

DOE Releases RFI to Achieve Off-Road Transportation Decarbonization

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced on May 7, 2024, the release of the “Progression of Net-Zero Emission Propulsion Technologies for the Off-Road Sector Request for...more

Adams & Reese

EPA Greenlights Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Heavy-Duty Vehicles, But States File Lawsuit

Adams & Reese on

Less than a month after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published environmental operational standards and greenhouse gas emission regulations for owners and operators of heavy-duty vehicles, including major freight...more

Alston & Bird

EPA’s New Rule Primes the Pump to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Emissions by 2032

Alston & Bird on

Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group unpacks the Environmental Protection Agency’s strict new standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from light- and medium-duty vehicles by 2032....more

Benesch

Driving Change: CARB’s Impacts and Adaptations by Fleet Managers

Benesch on

Environmental regulations, including those under the California Air Resources Board’s (“CARB”) jurisdiction, present a complex compliance challenge for vehicle fleet managers and operations departments across the country....more

Vedder Price

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter December 2023

Vedder Price on

GIFT City: A Gift for Aircraft Lessors? Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) was established in 2007 as India’s first operational smart city and an emerging global financial and IT services hub located in...more

J.S. Held

The Climate Tech Ecosystem

J.S. Held on

Climate Tech is an area of technology that is expressly concerned with the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the primary driver of climate change. In addition to GHG mitigation, climate tech also includes...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Biden Administration Unveils Blueprint to Decarbonize Transportation Sector

Holland & Knight LLP on

The Biden Administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization (Blueprint) on Jan. 10, 2023, setting forth a comprehensive strategy for federal leadership and partnerships to decarbonize the...more

Nossaman LLP

Federal Agencies Release National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization

Nossaman LLP on

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...more

111 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 5

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide