Biden Administration Unveils Blueprint To Decarbonize Transportation Sector

Highlights

• The Biden Administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation to detail the federal government's strategy to achieve net-zero emission reduction goals by 2050.
• The Blueprint, developed by the U.S. Departments of Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, along with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, provides a "framework of strategies and actions to remove all emissions from the transportation sector by 2050."
• The Blueprint is meant to serve as a "guide for future policymaking and research, development, demonstration, and deployment in the public and private sectors."

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 transportation sector in order to achieve the economy-wide 2030 and 2050 emissions reduction goals.¹