Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

The ‘Elitism’ Trap Migrates From Transport Reform to Climate Change

By Elana Schor | Sep 30, 2009 | No Comments

Transportation debates have a terminology all their own, whether arcane ("multi-modal"), hard to define ("subsidies"), or outright misleading — as is the case with "elitism," the standard line that road-building acolytes often apply to those who suggest that the government focus more on expanding transit and other forms of clean transport. Climate bill coauthors: Reps. […]

Senate Climate Bill Released With Much Fanfare, Little Focus on Transport

By Elana Schor | Sep 30, 2009 | 2 Comments

Flanked by fellow Democrats, members of the military, and a crowd hoisting signs with buzzwords like "clean energy" and "green jobs," Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) today released the first draft of their legislation to curb U.S. emissions and combat climate change. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), center, and John Kerry (D-MA), left, […]

The Assumption of Inconvenience

By Ryan Avent | Sep 30, 2009 | 5 Comments

Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to this Elisabeth Rosenthal essay at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations. The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident of Western Europe. Rosenthal attributes much of this difference […]

Senate Climate Bill Leaks: The Good News and Bad News for Transport

By Elana Schor | Sep 29, 2009 | No Comments

The Senate’s climate change legislation will finally make its debut tomorrow, courtesy of environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and foreign relations committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA). But the Washington Post has already obtained a "close-to-final" version of the bill [PDF], which provides some details but leaves unanswered the key question of how much aid […]

Predicting the Future is Hard

By Ryan Avent | Sep 25, 2009 | 7 Comments

About two years ago, the Urban Land Institute published Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, which argued that it will be crucial to build cities in a more compact fashion if the country hopes to avoid substantial growth in vehicle miles traveled and carbon emissions over the next few decades. At […]

New Report: 10% Transit Growth Would Help Meet House Climate Target

By Elana Schor | Sep 22, 2009 | 1 Comment

(Image: U.S. EIA via Climate Progress) A 10 percent annual increase in U.S. transit ridership would reduce CO2 emissions by 180 million tons each year, taking the nation halfway to the target set by the House climate change bill within three years, according to a report [PDF] released today by Environment America and the Coalition […]

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