Launch Of National Blueprint For Transportation Decarbonization

On January 10, the Biden-Harris Administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization: A Joint Strategy to Transform Transportation, which is designed to cut all greenhouse emissions from the sector by 2050. The blueprint, developed by the Departments of Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency, provides a "framework of strategies and actions to remove all emissions from the transportation sector by 2050." According to the blueprint's fact sheet, 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 executive summary of the blueprint provides that the agencies will "develop and implement the Action Plans and will work with other federal agencies, governments at the regional, state, local, and Tribal levels, philanthropic organizations, the private sector, and with