Colorado Adds Climate Change to Transportation Planning

What’s happening? This spring the Colorado Legislature passed SB21-260 (21 | CO) that required the Department of Transportation to account for climate consequences in their transportation plans. Now those plans are out in the wild.

Why is this important? The plan looks to Electric Vehicles and Zero Emission vehicles to make the greatest impact , specially as trucking industry moves to zero emission choices.

How will this be important? Colorado looked to the experiences of California, Massachusetts and other coastal states by:

•  restricting some state and federal transportation money for use only on climate-friendly projects 
• provide for offsets for major projects
• public input to direct greenhouse gas limits

Denver Post via Governing | Colorado Proposes Climate-Conscious Transportation Rules