As part of President Biden’s goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions, on January 10, 2023, the Biden administration released the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, which would bring together the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector by 2050.[1] The blueprint follows a September memorandum of understanding between the four agencies to enable them to accelerate the nation’s affordable and equitable clean transportation future. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act required the agencies to develop the plan by the end of 2022. The blueprint details how the agencies will work together to promote existing technology like battery power to cut emissions from light-duty cars and trucks, as well as research new fuel sources for hard-to-decarbonize sectors.

According to the White House, the plan is the first blueprint for the decarbonization of transportation and exemplifies the whole-of-government approach to addressing climate change. The Biden administration said that decarbonizing the transportation sector, which includes all modes of transportation in the country, would eliminate a third of all domestic greenhouse gases.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/us-national-blueprint-transportation-decarbonization-joint-strategy-transform-transportation