Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

5 Down, 5 to Go: Plan Linking Transit to Climate Bill Wins Sponsors

By Elana Schor | Jul 17, 2009 | No Comments

Streetsblog Capitol Hill reported this week that the Obama administration — which often talks about reducing transportation-based emissions — is staying mum on a bill that would devote a guaranteed share of revenues from carbon regulation to transit, bike paths, and other green modes of transport. But that doesn’t mean the proposal, otherwise known as […]

White House Staying Quiet For Now on Transit’s Role in Climate Bill

By Elana Schor | Jul 15, 2009 | No Comments

Delivering his climate-change message to Congress yesterday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned that fuel-efficiency advances secured by the Obama administration would not be enough to reduce emissions from transportation — not without encouraging Americans to drive less. Transportation Secretary LaHood said today he’ll weigh in later on climate-change money for transit. (Photo: HillBuzz) But when […]

Taking GOP Graphics a Bit Too Seriously

By Elana Schor | Jul 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

(Photo: Sen. Kit Bond [R-MO]) Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO), one of his chamber’s leading opponents of action against climate change, has swiped the hilariously complicated "chart" that his House colleagues used last month in a futile attempt to portray emissions reductions as just too complex for the American people to stomach. Complaining about the length […]

Boxer Delays Senate Climate Bill Until September

By Elana Schor | Jul 9, 2009 | 5 Comments

This was supposed to be a big week for action on climate change in the Senate — but it’s ending with Republicans rubbing their hands in glee as the Environment and Public Works Committee delays its unveiling of legislation on carbon emissions. Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (Photo: AP) As Reuters reports this […]

Getting the Message

By Ryan Avent | Jul 7, 2009 | 3 Comments

Two things were clear at this morning’s hearing of the Senate Banking Committee concerning green investments in public transportation. First, transportation experts and leading legislators are very much in agreement on how transportation spending should change. And second, Randal O’Toole’s days as anything other than an anachronism are numbered. Cato Institute fellow Randal O’Toole testified […]

Senate Starts Climate Push With Nods to Jobs, Energy, and Transportation

By Elana Schor | Jul 7, 2009 | 1 Comment

Total U.S. emissions in 2007, with transportation in blue at right. (Photo: FHWA) The Senate is taking its first public steps toward combating climate change — and while the U.S. DOT was absent from this morning’s hearing, the chiefs of the Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency reminded lawmakers that transportation must play a key […]

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