The Federal Highway Administration proposed to amend its regulations governing national performance management measures to require state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to establish declining carbon dioxide targets and a method for the measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation under Title 23 of the U.S. Code.

FERC proposed to direct transmission providers to submit one-time informational reports describing their current or planned policies and processes for conducting extreme weather vulnerability assessments under the Federal Power Act. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology established the Low Carbon Cements and Concretes Consortium to bring together stakeholders to identify and address standards needs related to low carbon cements and concretes used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission seeks comment to better inform its understanding and oversight of climate-related financial risk as pertinent to the derivatives markets and underlying commodities markets. 

FWS proposed to revise regulations concerning experimental populations of endangered species and threatened species under the ESA by removing language that generally restricts the introduction of experimental populations to only the species' historical range to allow for the introduction of populations into habitats outside their historical range for conservation purposes. 

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office implemented the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program, which is designed to accelerate the examination of patent applications for innovations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

The president issued Executive Order No. 14072, Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies; among other things, the order directs federal agencies to inventory old-growth and mature forests on federal lands and develop policies to protect them from threats like wildfire and climate change, and to develop a federal goal for meeting agency-specific reforestation targets by 2030.