Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: The Transport Project, formerly NGVAmerica, is an industry association negatively engaged with policies related to road transport and fossil gas in the United States in 2023-2025. The association has taken legal action to modify or overturn the EPA’s Phase 3 GHG emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles, and advocates for tax credits for fossil gas and renewable natural gas used in motor vehicles.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: The Transport Project has limited top-line messaging with climate change policy. In the Transport Project’s February 2024 Climate Statement, the association stated general support for government policy to decarbonize transport, but appears primarily focused on advocating for financial incentives for gaseous fuels, such as fossil gas, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen. The association does not appear to have a position on the Paris Agreement.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: The Transport Project has negative engagement with GHG emissions standards for vehicles in the United States. The association has extensively advocated against the Environmental Protection Agency’s Phase 3 GHG emissions standards for heavy duty vehicles, and in June 2024 began the process of suing the EPA in DC Circuit Court to review the emissions standards. In a November 2024 press release, the Transport Project opposed the GHG emissions standards and stated it was “pushing back against the misguided U.S. EPA Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas rule,” and also opposed the rule in a June 2024 press release. In a November 2024 op-ed written for Heavy Duty Trucking magazine, Transport Project CEO, Daniel Gage, opposed the EPA’s GHG emissions rule and defended the organization’s lawsuit against US regulators.
Positioning on Energy Transition: The Transport Project has consistently advocated for incentives for vehicles powered by fossil gas, and for modify GHG emissions regulations for road transport to likely promote the longer-term use of internal combustion engine-powered vehicles. In October 2023 comments to the National Highway and Traffic Safety Association, the Transport Project advocated for incentives for vehicles powered by fossil gas to be included in proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards. In July 2023 regulatory comments on the EPA’s GHG emissions standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles MY2027+, the association again pushed for credits for vehicles powered by fossil gas. In October 2023 regulatory comments on EPA’s Phase 3 GHG emissions standards, the association advocated for changes to the rule that would create an extended role for internal combustion engines and promote the use of biofuels in heavy-duty transport in the US.
The Transport Project has advocated to extend the Alternative Fuel Tax credit, which would subsidize fossil gas, propane, liquid fuel derived from coal, and other fuel sources according to its website, accessed November 2024. The Transport project has advocated extensively for a renewable natural gas tax credit for motor vehicles, including its CEO Daniel Gage, in an April 2023 statement appearing in CCJ news. The association also has promoted the RNG tax credit to policymakers according to its annual report, released in April 2024, and their website accessed in November 2024.
Transport Project CEO Daniel Gage also advocated for public policy to promote vehicles powered by fossil gas, in addition to biofuels and hydrogen, in a May 2024 op-ed appearing on Advanced Clean Technology news.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q1 2025.