The Department of Transportation has recently issued an Emerging Trends and Best Practices Guidebook to promote a deeper understanding of the responsibilities, opportunities and benefits of addressing environmental justice in transportation planning.
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Examples of preventive conservation are: appropriate measures and actions for registration, storage, handling, packing and transportation, security, environmental management (light, humidity, pollution and pest control), emergency planning, education of staff, public awareness, legal compliance (source: ICOM-CC definition).
Last November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation proposed a new set of rules that will require passenger cars and light trucks to achieve a combined average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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Everything we think of as being pretty important -- from education to basic science and research to transportation spending to national parks to environmental protection -- we'd essentially have to eliminate.
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To this list could be added programs on public health, broadcasting, publishing, transportation, telecommunications, business law, environmental problems and agriculture.
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At the federal level, one innovative solution can be found in the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a collaboration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD), the Department of Transportation ( DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have formally announced their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
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Cespa is the environmental services subsidiary of Ferrovial Servicios, the world's largest private transportation infrastructure investor.
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The other offices involved are transportation, electricity and energy, local development, civil aviation and environmental affairs.
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But before the U.S. Department of Transportation could grant any permits to Mexican truckers, in 2002, environmental and labor groups filed a lawsuit to block implementation on the grounds that the regulations violated U.S. environmental law.
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In addition to Secretary Salazar, the leadership of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, Justice, Transportation, and Treasury, as well as the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration, turned out to report to the tribal leaders on their efforts to help Indian Country move forward.
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