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Colin Peppard is the Transportation Policy Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council. His work is focused on reducing transportation's contribution to climate change, as well as other environmental impacts. This includes promoting federal transportation programs and policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and developing and expanding transportation management and infrastructure investment initiatives that can increase sustainability while improving mobility and stimulating local economies.
Before he began with NRDC, Peppard ran federal transportation policy campaigns for both Environmental Defense Fund and Friends of the Earth US. During this period, Peppard coordinated the Smart Growth and Climate Change Coalition, an effort of more than fifty diverse organizations which successfully advanced the federal role of smart growth and transit in mitigating climate change. Peppard has helped to stop major budget cuts to federal smart growth programs, public transit, and Amtrak. He has testified before Congress on the global warming benefits of passenger rail, and helped to move legislation through the Senate providing dedicated funding for passenger rail, reforming Amtrak's operations to improve service, and boosting the use of renewable locomotive fuels.
Peppard began his career with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group in Boston, where coordinated both the Massachusetts and New England Climate Coalitions, helping to pass several pieces of clean energy policy and legislation. He is a Board Member of the Alliance for Biking and Walking.
Peppard received a B.A. in Environmental Thought and Practice and Environmental Science from the University of Virginia.
