Together, this substantial investment in transit coupled with transit-oriented development will lower vehicle miles traveled.
We can't address our dependence on foreign oil without reducing oil consumption in the transportation sector.
The Texas Transportation Institute estimates Portland has 20 percent less congestion than it would otherwise.
Total carbon emissions in Portland are below the 1990 levels.
Pursuing strategies to increase fuel efficiency and cleaning our fuel mix alone will result in failure.
We need to finally provide the Federal Transit Administration with the resources it needs to meet local demand.
Public transportation creates 19 percent more jobs per dollar invested than road projects do.
It would be tremendous for the health of our forests, certainly for our ecosystems, for the impact on carbon dioxide in the air and the stre...
I really look forward to working with both of you on this because currently we have viewed our forests as a source of dimensional lumber.
I appreciate you adjusting your schedule to meet now and not when the panel is here later.
This was the memo, not about new sources, but about carbon dioxide, in which you noted that controlling carbon dioxide is eco-extremism.
Certainly, that carbon dioxide is an issue for our atmosphere.
Transforming our energy economy is essential. The status quo is simply unacceptable.
We will continue to spend $1 billion to $2 billion or more every day overseas rather than spending it here in the United States on clean ene...
We need to end our dependence on foreign oil and foreign energy.
This bill, obviously, is going to be very important to Oregon as to the other 50 States.
So it doesn't sound like we have a red tape problem here.
And to compare projects across modes and have flexibility----
