February 12, 2026 – EPA’s decision to repeal the motor vehicle greenhouse gas endangerment finding revives a legal fight over climate regulation, setting up major litigation and raising the prospect of fragmented state-by-state vehicle emissions rules.
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December 12, 2025 – The House of Representatives has passed a bill making significant reforms in Clean Water Act permitting that will affect a significant number of transportation projects.
November 21, 2025 – A new EPA-Army Corps proposal would significantly limit which waters qualify as WOTUS, streamlining permitting for some projects while reducing protections for wetlands that help mitigate flooding.
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November 21, 2025 – A new FMCSA rule dramatically narrows eligibility for non-domiciled CDLs, a change that could force an estimated 194,000 legally present drivers out of the workforce despite their strong safety record.
November 14, 2025 – Decades of proposals to reorganize USDOT consistently stall not for policy reasons, but because of fragmented and overlapping Senate committee jurisdictions. Meaningful USDOT reform will only be possible if Congress first modernizes its own committee structure.
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