Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Air Quality

Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY’s Against Wind Power

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 8 Comments

Newsday reports: A high-voltage transmission line running through Central New York could spur the creation of environmentally friendly wind farms across the state, according to Bill May, project manager for the Albany-based New York Regional Interconnect Inc., who hopes to build the line. However, there is intense opposition coming from many upstate residents. Perhaps that […]

Taxing Vehicles Based on Their Environmental Impact

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

The New Zealand Herald reports: Germany’s government plans to tax cars based on emissions instead of engine size to help tackle climate change, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said. Tiefensee told a news conference early Sunday that German and other European carmakers had to do more to protect the environment, after the head of the UN […]

Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show

By Jason Varone | Feb 12, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Chicago Tribune reports: Dressed as polar bears and Santa Claus and towing signs that read "True Patriots Don’t Burn Oil" and "Be a Hero: Drive Less," a group of bicyclists gathered Saturday in front of McCormick Place to protest the Chicago Auto Show. "We feel there are enough cars in Chicago," said Dan […]

Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa®

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 30 Comments

While Parisians are starting to complain that "an invasion of noisy scooters and motorcycles and a rise in accidents involving pedestrian and motorcyclists" is one of the "unintended consequences" of Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s traffic reduction policies, "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz’s consulting firm just issued a report claiming that New York City could better meet its […]

New York New Visions Tackles “Sustainable” New York Future

By Neil deMause | Feb 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

After Mayor Bloomberg’s December announcement of his PlaNYC initiative to prepare for a sustainable New York of 9 million people by 2030, New York New Visions, the group of architects and planners originally organized around Ground Zero rebuilding, announced it was expanding its scope to tackle the new challenge. Last night, in a stark white […]

Eyes on the Street: Grim, Immovable

By Aaron Donovan | Feb 2, 2007 | 9 Comments

The BQE, as seen from Lorimer Street. All this talk about Robert Moses lately leads one to think about the Freeway Revolt.

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