News and reports from the Department of Transportation.

The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Kalispell, Mont., recently received $25 million in federal funding via the Rural Surface Transportation Grant, which will dramatically improve the city in northwest Montana.

The US Transportation Department published a one page rule on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Funding of nearly $1.7 billion is available through two programs of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration that will modernize transit fleets with low-and no-emission buses and renovate and construct bus facilities.

The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Jan. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Following a letter from U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and 11 of her colleagues, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is delaying the effective date of the final rule to reclassify the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Species Act from January 30, 2023 to March 31, 2023.

U.S. Senator Tom Carper, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (both D-Del.), joined Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), U.S. Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.), and 45 other congressional colleagues in a letter sent Wednesday to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan urging the agency to strengthen protections for workers, environmental justice communities, and first responders under its proposed Risk Management Program (RMP) rule.

U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today filed an amicus brief in the pending case of Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today introduced the Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act.

Incoming U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is pressing U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Alexander Hoehn-Saric and Commissioner Richard L. Trumka, Jr. to disclose data and information regarding the CPSC’s efforts to ban gas stoves.

U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, released a review of Committee achievements during the 117th Congress.

Senators reintroduce widely supported, common sense bills to increase transparency and curb deceptive practices by prescription drug middlemen

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today introduced the Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act.