Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Air Quality

Study: Kids Who Live Near Freeways Have Trouble Breathing

By Sarah Goodyear | Jan 30, 2007 | 10 Comments

A new study to be published in the Feb. 17 issue of the Lancet makes a strong case for the link between proximity to vehicular traffic and poor lung function in children. An article on Medical News Today sums up the report, which is currently available online to Lancet subscribers. [R]esearchers at the Keck School […]

Uncool New York: NYC Lags in Combatting Climate Change

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

Chris Smith has an outstanding story in this week’s New York Magazine pointing out that New York City has fallen behind other world cities in addressing climate change and challenging the Bloomberg Administration to do more. An excerpt: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been cruising through his second term. At this point, with a gaudy approval […]

Making Hell’s Kitchen Less Hellish

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 10, 2007 | 20 Comments

StreetFilms Ninth Avenue Renaissance Town Hall Meeting Running time: 3:35 Monday night was the first meeting of the Ninth Avenue Renaissance project. About 130 neighborhood stakeholders filled the gym at the Holy Cross School in Midtown to begin a process to transform Ninth Avenue from a dysfunctional, traffic-choked, polluted highway into, what organizer Christine Berthet […]

Bloomberg: “New York City 2030: Accepting the Challenge”

By Glenn McAnanama | Dec 12, 2006 | 29 Comments

Is happening right now….Catch it at NYC.gov

Urban Density and a Pocketbook Plea for Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 26, 2006 | 17 Comments

Of the ten largest cities in the United States, New York has far and away the greatest population density: 26,402.9 people per square mile, more than double the second densest big city, Chicago. The chart at right shows how the largest metropolitan areas stack up in terms of core population, overall population and core population density. […]

State of California Sues Carmakers on Climate Change

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 20, 2006 | 4 Comments

If you think Eliot Spitzer picked some tough fights as Attorney General, check out this guy Lockyer in California: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California filed a global warming lawsuit on Wednesday against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and three other automakers, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars. […]