States Urged To Elevate Equity In Regional Transportation GHG Program

Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states developing the country’s first cap-and-trade program to cut transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions are being urged to ensure that their effort elevates and addresses the equity concerns of disadvantaged communities and areas on the “front-line” of pollution challenges. These environmental justice issues arose repeatedly at a day-long July 30 workshop in Baltimore on the Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI), organized by Georgetown Climate Center. Poor and minority communities “need to be at the table,” argued Sacoby...