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Title: When Climate Funds Pay for Highway Expansion
Post by: IroNat on August 09, 2024, 06:29:42 AM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-07/can-adding-highway-lanes-bring-transportation-emissions-down?utm_campaign=bn&utm_medium=distro&utm_source=yahooUS

But according to an analysis from the advocacy group Transportation for America, a quarter of the IIJA funds reported as obligated or spent so far have gone toward expenses associated with highway and road expansions. Such investments, the organization maintains, stand to embed high transportation emissions for decades, incentivizing driving and encouraging ever-more-sprawled-out development and land use patterns.

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