On November 6, Law360 quoted Fred Wagner in an article, "Trump Win Puts Emissions Regs on Chopping Block." According to the article, president-elect Donald Trump is expected to roll back Biden administration rules and initiatives meant to slash transportation-sector emissions and encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, likely focusing on what experts say would be more "traditional" infrastructure investment in highways, roads and bridges.
"Specific transportation policies folded into the Biden administration's agenda, especially after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed would very likely become the subject of some sort of retrenchment or revisitation in a Trump administration," Venable LLP partner Fred Wagner, a former chief counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration under President Barack Obama, told Law360.
"I think [the Trump and GOP] view of the transportation world is that the choices that are made and are funded should largely be made locally," he explained. "But that, given a preference, they would much rather fund traditional types of projects as opposed to the ones that are designed to vary the usage of transportation modes or to discourage personal vehicle travel."
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