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Today’s Headlines
by Elana Schor
- Sen. Lincoln (AR) one of several Democrats backing a GOP effort to block EPA from regulating carbon emissions (The Hill)
- Lester Brown: Amid rising hunger, the U.S. is feeding one-quarter of its grain to cars (Grist)
- U.S. DOT to San Francisco's BART: Address social equity concerns with your proposed airport transit line, or watch it lose stimulus money (Streetsblog SF)
- Virginia's new governor: no plan for transportation, but truckers love that he's reopening rest stops (WaPo)
- Data on transit's job-creation potential -- which you read here first -- gets some big notice (Wired)
- In Tennessee, Knoxville city officials mull the loss of their unused stimulus money (News-Sentinel)
- In Wisconsin, legislators mull a half-cent sales tax increase that could be used for rail (Journal-Sent.)