The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) is a new collaboration of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia to achieve shared energy, transportation, and climate goals. Working together, these jurisdictions can enhance their respective capacities to achieve policy objectives beyond their reach as individual jurisdictions. Many federal policy decisions facing the Northeast-Midwest (NEMW) Coalitions may interact with TCI efforts. This Note to the Coalitions provides essential background on TCI’s goals, structure, and activities to help inform those policy decisions.

NEMWI released the Note in conjunction with a briefing titled “The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States’ Transportation Climate Initiative” held on April 23, 2012.