Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Environment

E-Buses Won't Come Fast Enough to Save the Climate

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 31, 2020 | No Comments

Massachusetts has signed a multi-state pact to make zero-emission vehicles at least 30 percent of new bus and truck sales by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050 – but there’s considerable uncertainty about whether the pledge is ambitious enough to help Massachusetts meet its latest climate goals.

New Mass. Climate Bill Will Reduce Tailpipe Emissions

By Christian MilNeil | Aug 3, 2020 | No Comments

The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a significant new climate bill on Friday night that commits the state to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by “at least 50 percent below the 1990 level” within the next decade. The Senate passed a bill with similar goals at the end of January. The two chambers, which recently agreed […]

US Cuts Car Pollution, But Less So In Poor Communities

By Jonathan Colmer and Jay Shimshack | Jul 31, 2020 | No Comments

Fine-particle air pollution has decreased across the US, but poor and minority communities are still the most polluted

Car-Free Residents Struggle with Food Insecurity

By Christian MilNeil | Jul 21, 2020 | No Comments

In Mid-March, community members had just planted beets and peas in GreenRoots Chelsea’s 1200-square-foot urban farm. Then the pandemic hit, and social distancing made collective farming impossible. For GreenRoots, a community-based organization striving to achieve environmental justice, the growing season had just begun. The organization immediately adapted to the increasing demands for food and shifted […]

Source: U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Spencer Slocum via Creative Commons

Trump Order Will Pollute Black Communities

By Kea Wilson | Jun 8, 2020 | No Comments

By dismantling key environmental protections, Trump is empowering cities to build highways through black neighborhoods — a heinous form of environmental racism that has killed countless Americans.

Car Pollution Makes COVID-19 Health Outcomes Worse

By Christian MilNeil | Apr 7, 2020 | No Comments

A new nationwide study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that people living in neighborhoods with higher levels of fine particulate air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection than patients from areas with cleaner air. That’s especially concerning for many of communities of color in Massachusetts, where the legacies […]

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