Infrastructure Bill’s Climate Transport Measures May Clash With House

The Senate’s just-passed bipartisan infrastructure legislation is setting up a clash with House Democrats over the bill’s transportation-related climate provisions, including dueling approaches to prod states to incorporate lower-carbon strategies in their highway programs. Even though House Democrats see the Senate’s plan as insufficient, it would nonetheless represent the first enacted climate title of legislation reauthorizing federal surface transportation programs. In addition to a “Carbon Reduction Program” requiring states to craft strategies to cut emissions in their programs -- which...