OFFICIALS DEVELOPING A new regional approach to reducing tailpipe emissions on the East Coast are considering policies that would add between 5 cents and 17 cents to the cost of a gallon of gasoline, generating over $1 billion in the first year spread among all the participating states. No price is set in stone yet, […]
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DeLeo calls off transpo tax debate – for now
HOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO is putting off a debate over tax legislation to fund transportation improvements until next year, throwing into doubt whether anything will happen in an area that advocates and business groups say is in desperate need of more funding. After expressing some uncertainty Wednesday about his plans to take up the tax […]
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TCI looks a lot like a gas tax, but is it?
GOV CHARLIE BAKER’S Transportation Climate Initiative looks a lot like a tax, but in legal terms it’s not. The Transportation Climate Initiative, or TCI, would require automobile fuel distributors in states from Maine to Virginia to buy pollution allowances for the carbon dioxide their products generate. The initiative would cap the number of allowances, and ratchet […]
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TCI looks a lot like a gas tax, but is it?
Gov. Charlie Baker’s Transportation Climate Initiative looks a lot like a tax, but in legal terms it’s not. The Transportation Climate Initiative, or TCI, would require automobile fuel distributors in states from Maine to Virginia to buy pollution allowances for the carbon dioxide their products generate. The initiative would cap the number of allowances, and […]
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Tackling traffic, fixing the T, and saving the planet
THE TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES facing the Boston region have come to feel like an existential threat on more than one level. Business leaders, including Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce chief Jim Rooney, have sounded the alarm that roadway gridlock and a transit system that limps along from one problem to the next are threatening the regional […]
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Tackling traffic, fixing the T, and saving the planet
The transportation challenges facing the Boston region have come to feel like an existential threat on more than one level. Business leaders, including Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce chief Jim Rooney, have sounded the alarm that roadway gridlock and a transit system that limps along from one problem to the next are threatening the regional […]
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Straus: Transportation revenue debate starting now
THE LONG-AWAITED legislative debate over how to fund improvements to the state’s beleaguered transportation system will kick off Tuesday, according to one of the key players. Gov. Charlie Baker himself will appear before the Transportation Committee to pitch lawmakers on his five-year, $18 billion bond bill financing transportation construction projects. Questions over how the governor […]