White House Declines to Pressure Congress on Public Transit Funding

You’d think that, granted the bully pulpit, the Obama administration’s secretary of transportation might actually use it when approached by Congress for advice on public transit funding.

But you’d be wrong.

Asked yesterday by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) if the House-passed climate change bill contains enough funding for More…

Environmentalists Treading Carefully in Rxn to LaHood Pick

Rep. Ray LaHood has a terrible record on the environment. The Illinois Republican, picked by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Dept. of Transportation, voted to expand oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to gut a green-building initiative, to slacken protections of grasslands and wetlands, and to kill More…