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Repealed Rules Requiring Planning Agencies to Track CO2 Emissions

Reorienting Transportation Planning to Minimize GHGs
Individual Agencies
Although it was repealed by the Trump Administration, in January 2017 the Federal Highway Administration briefly published a final rule (82 Fed. Reg. 5970) requiring state and regional planning agencies to track carbon emissions from vehicles.

Transportation and Climate Initiative

Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US), Incentives for EVs and Hydrogen Vehicles, Reports on Reducing Transportation Demand Generally
States and State Governments
A regional collaboration of 12 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector.

California’s UrbanFootprint tool

Reports on Reducing Transportation Demand Generally
Local Governments, Private Entities
A web-based software platform built to help planners and policy makers determine the best scenarios and outcomes for their communities.

Report, Global Transportation Energy and Climate Roadmap

Reports on Reducing Transportation Demand Generally
Congress, States and State Governments
Analyzed different policy trajectories to meet transportation demand by using less-polluting modes and decreasing transportation activity through land use and other strategies.

RFF Carbon Pricing Bill Tracker

Proposed Carbon Pricing Schemes (US)
Congress
Compares all of the carbon pricing bills introduced in the 116th Congress to see where there is and is not agreement on the array of policy options for implementing a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Urban Land Institute Reports: Growing Cooler, Moving Cooler

Using Land Use Policy to Diminish Vehicle Miles Traveled, Reports on Reducing Transportation Demand Generally
States and State Governments, Local Governments, Private Entities
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, concluding that more compact development can decrease driving rates 20% to 40%; and Moving Cooler, which surveyed sources of potential GHG reduction from transportation.

Missouri Home Improvement Tax Deduction

Financing Deep Retrofits
State Legislatures
Allows homeowners to take an income tax deduction (up to $1000, or $2000 for couples) of the cost of home energy audits and associated energy efficiency improvements.