Re PERMITTING REFORM: it's enormously instructive that in his Heatmap convo with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.socialheatmap.news/podcast/shif... 1/n
Rob interviews Ali Zaidi at Yale.
Reminder for myself that not everything needs to become a product and art can just exist because it just brings me joy to create ✨️
Because of pressure from climate voters, the Biden-Harris Admin went all in on climate. It is one of top accomplishments of the Admin & commanded a lot of political capital and time. It was a huge climate win, & now we also need an IRA2. We can push hard for IRA2-4 with the VP. With Trump, we can’t.
The president really matters when it comes to transportation investment. Under Trump, the US DOT sent ~45% of its BUILD program funds—which it had direct control over—to projects that expand roads. Under Biden, this figure declined to ~15% under RAISE. www.urban.org/research/pub...
