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WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on March 14 pledged swift work by Congress on a job and infrastructure package that will be “fiscally sound,” but said she isn’t sure whether the next major item on President Joe Biden’s agenda will attract Republican backing.

Candidate Joe Biden rode into the White House promising to build back the economy after the devastation of COVID-19 with cleaner energy and a lower carbon footprint. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law March 11, however, does little in the way of fulfilling that pledge.

Freight transportation stakeholders said they’d welcome revival of the long-dormant congressional earmark process as part of comprehensive infrastructure legislation later this year.

Severe-weather events that immobilize communities and cut off access to energy resources reinforce the need to boost programs designed to address climate change, the leader of the Senate’s transportation committee said.

The centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s massive transportation infrastructure package could move through a key Senate committee by the end of May, according to Sen. Tom Carper.

A sweeping executive order from President Joe Biden calls for a review of all Trump-era environmental regulations with a focus on the issue of “environmental justice,” an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions in low-income and minority communities across the United States that, in many cases, are located near where heavy trucks operate.

White House Senior Adviser Cedric Richmond left open the possibility that the Biden administration could seek passage of an infrastructure plan with only Democratic votes after the president drew criticism for a $1.9 trillion virus relief package that’s poised to pass along partisan lines.

The committee in the U.S. Senate with jurisdiction over the country’s highway policy is scheduled to hear from stakeholders about efforts to respond to climate change concerns.

President Joe Biden’s soon-to-be-unveiled longer-term economic stimulus package is set for far tougher obstacles in Congress than the pandemic-relief bill that’s on the verge of squeaking through without a single Republican’s backing.

A group of Democratic senators recently introduced legislation designed to initiate reductions of greenhouse gas emissions on the nation’s highways.