DC Streetsblog: How Did the Senate’s 2008 Climate Bill Treat Transportation?

From DC Streetsblog: 

As I hunted for the language in the House climate change bill that set aside emissions allowances for  transportation projects, I wondered how the Senate treated the issue in its climate bill last year.  In fact, that Senate bill, which fell 12 votes short of beating a filibuster in the first week of June 2008, came somewhat closer than this year's House bill to meeting the goals set by Rep. Earl Blumenauer's (D-OR) "CLEAN TEA" bill.  How did transit fare in last year's Senate climate bill, sponsored by environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA)? The Blumenauer proposal would dedicate 10 percent of the revenue from any cap-and-trade emissions program to green transportation. The final version of Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) 2008 climate bill would have given transit a guaranteed share of the proceeds from auctioning pollution permits (starting at just 1 percent, then rising gradually to 2.75 percent).  By contrast, this month's House climate bill gives transit a maximum of 10 percent of state-level emissions allowances -- which themselves represent 10 percent of the total allowances.