Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

Civil Rights Groups Rally Against Threat to Environmental Review

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 21, 2012 | No Comments

A coalition of civil rights and environmental groups is crying foul over proposed changes to an important environmental protection as lawmakers attempt to hammer out a last minute deal on the transportation bill. The weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, would disproportionately harm minority groups, according to a statement from The Leadership […]

Patent Troll Sues Transit Agencies For Releasing Real-Time Transit Info

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 16, 2012 | 21 Comments

Lloyd Dobbler, John Cusack’s generation-defining character in Say Anything, notably said, “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.” Martin Kelly Jones lives by a similar creed. He doesn’t make or sell anything. Instead he makes his living by attacking transit agencies for using real-time tracking technologies that he […]

Obama Counters Gas Price Demagoguery With Commitment to Fracking

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 13, 2012 | 2 Comments

It’s been almost a year since the Obama administration released its Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future, but more importantly, it’s been two weeks since Energy Secretary Steven Chu got chewed out for not caring enough about lowering gas prices. And Newt Gingrich, whose presidential campaign is slipping into irrelevancy, can still do some political […]

Poll: Republicans Support Transpo Policies to Avert Climate Change, Too

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 16, 2011 | 10 Comments

Judging from the level of our national debate, you would guess we are a nation strongly divided on the issue of climate change. But you’d be wrong, according to a new poll from Yale University. A representative survey of 1,010 adults found that 71 percent think that global warming should be a “very high,” “high” […]

How to Get People to Adopt More Climate-Friendly Behaviors

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 29, 2011 | 6 Comments

Dear sustainability advocate: I know you are tired. You spend your life looking climate apocalypse in the eye and knowing that human behavior needs to change to avert catastrophe. But are humans changing their behavior? Not fast enough. And why not? You’ve started carpooling and weatherized your house and it wasn’t so hard. So why […]

Study: American Competitiveness Hinges on the Greening of Freight

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 1, 2011 | No Comments

Economic competitiveness and sustainability — when it comes to the performance of North America’s freight system, the two terms are nearly synonymous. That is the key finding from a new report by NAFTA’s Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. While fuel saving technologies are expected to reduce emissions from passenger vehicles by 12 percent […]

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