Colorado adopts rule requiring CDOT to prove how any highway expansion project would reduce pollution.
"Within a year, the department nixed two major highway widening projects and redirected $100 million to greener alternatives like better public transit."
What's not pointed out in the article is that CDOT could have simply claimed they were reducing pollution by reducing congestion by expanding highways - that they did not indicates real buy-in.
California’s budget crunch is fueling a fight over whether to spend scarce dollars on highways or walkways.
"Environmentalists say the money — $200 million in each of the next three fiscal years — won’t make a significant dent in the state’s $5.2 billion highway account. “We hear the administration say, ‘Well, with the deficit, we have to make these painful cuts,’ but they’re not cutting back on road building"
Biden administration steps in on Caltrans’ Highway 99 expansion in Fresno
"Citing potential procedural mistakes by the Federal Highway Administration, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has ordered a reevaluation of the agency’s decision to exempt two interchange expansions, on North and American Avenues, from a Clean Air Act analysis."
Highway 99 project in Fresno takes second look at air quality
Stopping Interstate 11 through Arizona.
"Transportation officials face a troubling choice in one of the southernmost sections of the road’s 280-mile route: ramming through populous downtown Tucson to the east, or decimating the fragile Sonoran desert to the west, bulldozing many of the iconic giant cacti where the owls make their nests in the process."
Can This Tiny Owl Defeat One of America's Biggest Highway Projects? — Streetsblog USA
New Ohio Law Promises to Tear Down Neighborhoods for Highways
"For decades, Strongsville has pushed for an interchange at Interstate 71 and Brunswick’s Boston Road, while Brunswick pushed back in an effort to preserve its growing neighborhood"
"State Representative Tom Patton overrode the system, ignored local desires, and dictated the interchange be completed through the law."
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/10/new-ohio-law-promises-to-tear-down-neighborhoods-for-highways