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The current highway funding bill expires next year. The fuel tax is outdated, the Highway Trust Fund is in trouble. What possible fixes are being floated? Commentary from HDT's Deborah Lockridge.
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President Biden has called for a three-month federal fuel tax holiday to help alleviate the pain of record gasoline and diesel fuel prices. But it faces and uphill battle in Congress, and critics say it could even backfire.
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The American Transportation Research Institute released research that describes a framework for electric vehicle taxation to support transportation infrastructure.
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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association submitted a letter to lawmakers calling truck-only taxes, like one suggested by Sen. John Cornyn, discriminatory.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke about the Federal Highway Trust Fund and climate change during his keynote address at the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Washington Briefing.
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President-Elect Joe Biden is planning to nominate former presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg to head the transportation department, according to published reports.
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President Trump signed a continuing resolution that avoided a government shutdown and extended the current transportation funding program.
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A new advertising and grassroots campaign by ATA might just sell Congress on fixing our roads. Commentary by David Cullen, Executive Editor.
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The “discussion draft” of a wide-ranging infrastructure plan just released by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster is receiving a warm welcome from stakeholder groups, but there’s no guarantee it will be hammered into law.
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Reaction by trucking and highway interest lobbies to the full reveal of President Trump’s gargantuan infrastructure plan essentially mirror views the groups expressed last month, when some of its contents were leaked and when the plan’s funding goal was ratcheted up in the State of the Union address.
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