Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

Obama’s Climate Speech: Mostly Mum on Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 25, 2013 | 3 Comments

President Obama announced a sweeping package of measures to address climate change today. But with a couple of exceptions, he was largely silent on the 27 percent of carbon emissions that come from the transportation sector. One of the most important reforms the president announced is presidential memorandum he plans to issue to the EPA to […]

Will Big Highway Projects Have to Consider Climate Change?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 21, 2013 | 13 Comments

Since 1970, the National Environmental Protection Act has required federal agencies to consider the impacts of their projects on air, water, and soil pollution — but not on climate change. Until recently, carbon dioxide, which causes global warning, wasn’t classified as a pollutant and so couldn’t be regulated under environmental laws. The EPA in 2009 […]

Will Driverless Cars Add Another Color to Australia’s Heat Maps?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 10, 2013 | 5 Comments

Here’s the big news of the day: Autonomous cars are making a big splash at the Consumer Electronics Show right now. Audi is testing its self-driving cars on Nevada roads. Google’s already done it in California. Toyota and Lexus are getting ready too. Here’s the other big news of the day: The planet’s getting hotter. […]

Weathering the Next 108-Year Storm

By Deron Lovaas | Nov 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

Deron Lovaas is the Federal Transportation Policy Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. This article is cross-posted from his blog on Switchboard. The Boy Scout motto (“Be prepared”) should guide state transportation departments (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and transit agencies as we recover from the destruction Hurricane Sandy wreaked. This superstorm was deemed historic for transit […]

The Connection That Can’t Be Ignored: Sandy and Climate Change

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 1, 2012 | 13 Comments

If there’s any good news to come out of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, it’s that political leaders and the press are actually talking about climate change. At the end of a long campaign season with barely a mention of the issue, it’s a relief to hear some sane discussion of the issue based on […]

International Funders Shift Investments Toward Sustainable Transportation

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 13, 2012 | 6 Comments

If you think the United States is doing a bad job shifting toward sustainable transportation, take a look at the developing world. The places with the most to lose from auto-oriented development are doubling down on it — to the enormous detriment of their citizens, especially the poorest. The number of cars in the world […]

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