• Climate Change

EU Climate Policy: Fuel Up, Fuel Down

• climate change
• EU
• high speed rail
• passenger rail
• trains

By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer One of the big headlines out of the European Union’s recently released package of concrete policies to hit climate neutrality was the phase out of diesel and petrol fueled cars by 2035. The proposal plans for charging stations every 60km (about every 37 miles), a massive ramp up in […]

• Air

Biden’s Ambitious New Rail Plan Expands Service Map To New Cities

• Amtrak
• high speed rail
• Infrastructure
• rail
• trains

Right now, Las Vegas, Nashville, and Phoenix all don’t have Amtrak service. That could change if the new Amtrak service map, released last week as part of President Biden’s infrastructure plan, gets built.

Why This Matters: Getting around by train is more energy-efficient than driving or flying, especially if it’s electrified.

• People

Passenger Rail Could Be The Winner of a Biden Infrastructure Bill

• high speed rail
• Infrastructure
• passenger rail
• Pete Buttigieg
• President Biden
• public transportation

by Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer While working to pass a COVID relief package through both houses of Congress, the Biden administration is simultaneously working on its next priority legislative package: a much-awaited $2T infrastructure bill.  One of the anticipated winners of this bill could be passenger rail, as President Biden has said he wants […]

• Energy

Could high-speed rail remedy housing shortages and curb emissions?

• commute
• emissions
• high speed rail

Last year, for the first time in 40 years, emissions from vehicles rose to become the United States’ highest source of greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time that more Americans are living in cities and our average commute times are growing each year, the Trump administration has moved to weaken fuel efficiency standards put […]