Mississippi to receive $15M to reduce transportation emissions

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – On Thursday, April 21, the U.S. Division of Transportation’s Federal Freeway Administration introduced a brand new program that unlocks $6.4 billion in components funding for states and localities over 5 years.

The brand new Carbon Discount Program (CRP), created underneath the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation, will assist states develop state carbon discount methods and deal with the local weather disaster. States can use the funds in CRP to increase transportation choices for American households that may assist save them get monetary savings on gasoline.

Beneath the Carbon Discount Program, Mississippi will obtain $15.6 million in Fiscal 12 months 2022 funding and is eligible to obtain as much as $81.2 million over 5 years to scale back transportation emissions by way of the event of state carbon discount methods and by funding initiatives designed to scale back carbon dioxide emissions from on-road freeway sources.   

“Because the sector producing essentially the most carbon emissions within the U.S. economic system, transportation should play a number one position in fixing the local weather disaster,” mentioned U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “The Carbon Discount Program will assist scale back air pollution from transportation and transfer us nearer to the President’s bold aim of chopping emissions in half by 2030.”

The Carbon Discount Program will fund a variety of initiatives designed to scale back carbon dioxide emissions from on-road freeway sources — from putting in infrastructure to assist the electrification of freight automobiles or private vehicles, to developing Bus Speedy Transit corridors, to facilitating micro-mobility and biking.