Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Air Quality

The World’s Greenest, Most Livable Cities

By Jason Varone | | 9 Comments
Writing in this month’s Reader’s Digest, Matthew Kahn, an environmental economist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment, analyzed data from 141 nations and ranked the planet’s greenest, most livable places. While Northern European nations like Finland, Norway and Sweden fared well, the United States performed poorly in several categories, ranking #107 in Greenhouse gases, #106 […]

Making the Case for Compact Development

By Sarah Goodyear | | 8 Comments
From the people at Smart Growth America comes word of a new book, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, just out from the Urban Land Institute. In the book, researchers argue that more compact development (such as Atlantic Station, a mixed-use complex in Atlanta built on reclaimed industrial land, shown at […]

The Black Car Project: Filling the Autovoid

By Jason Varone | | 9 Comments
Thinking of getting rid of your car? You could sell it, but that means somebody else is eventually going to drive it on our city’s streets, contributing to air pollution and congestion. The Black Car Collective has a better idea: entomb it in black stucco. The idea is instead of a functional art car we […]

Judge in Vermont Upholds California Emissions Standards

By Brad Aaron | | 7 Comments
  Detroit car makers lost another battle in their fight against stronger emissions regulations last week, this time in Vermont. The Burlington Free Press reports: In a major victory for states’ efforts to combat global warming, a U.S. District Court judge in Burlington ruled Wednesday that federal law does not bar Vermont from imposing tougher […]
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