What can we expect on Earth Day a year from now?

Climate change and supply chain experts share hopes for Earth Day next year.

Environmental progress certainly has been made in the 51 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, but there is much more work to do. Many companies have set goals for net-zero carbon emissions, but most are a decade or two away from achieving those aspirations.

What can be done in the next 12 months? FreightWaves asked various supply chain and climate change experts, as well as some of its own staff members, this question:

What environmental goals would you like to see companies meet by Earth Day...

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Strict rules key to sustainable transportation, climate policy expert says

Dan Becker shares insights into transportation-related climate policy.

FreightWaves recently chatted with Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Transport Campaign, to learn about how transportation-related climate change policy works.

After law school, Becker fought to pass legislation such as the Clean Air Act, California’s vehicular emissions law, AB 1493, President Barack Obama’s clean car standards and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund program for cleaning up toxic waste in places such as Love Canal.

Becker ran the global warming and...

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What transportation can expect from Biden’s first 100 days

Policies addressing climate change, civil rights and equity will be linked with transportation policy like never before by the incoming presidential administration, according to policy experts in Washington.

Even before Pete Buttigieg was nominated by President-elect Joe Biden on Dec. 15 to be the next secretary of transportation, it was made clear during the presidential campaign that climate change and civil rights would be a major focus of the next administration. During his nomination...

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