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President Obama, DOT Secretary Foxx announce $600M for 6th round of TIGER funding for transportation projects

Green Car Congress

US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined President Barack Obama to announce that $600 million will be made available to fund transportation projects across the country under a sixth round of the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery ( TIGER ) competitive grant program.

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

By 2012, we should have made some progress on this, just in time to re-elect Obama to his second term. But increased use of electric vehicles could lead to everyone plugging in at the same time, peaking demand and complicating things, particularly if electric vehicles take hold of entire neighborhoods, as car trends often do, Kjaer explained.

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What Does Henry Waxman Know About Climate That Made Him Quit?

Creative Greenius

But your friendly neighborhood Greenuis still has plenty of juju and mojo to keep me going for whatever comes next. Filed under: carbon producers , climate change , Community Activists , electric cars , environment , environmental legislation , Environmental Politics , fossil fuels , renewable energy Tagged: Creative Greenius , Henry Waxman.

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