Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate Change

Times Says: We Must Pay More for Fossil Fuels

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

The New York Times published an editorial today about "an unpleasant and inescapable truth: any serious effort to fight [global] warming will require everyone to pay more for energy." The piece then goes on to dismiss carbon taxes as politically unfeasible, and discusses the merits of cap-and-trade systems, emphasizing that in order to work, they […]

Good Stuff in This Week’s Mobilizing the Region

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 3, 2007 | 7 Comments

Finally, we get to see just how much former executive director Jon Orcutt was tamping down the high-powered talent at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. The latest issue of Mobilizing the Region is jam-packed with good articles. Here are some highlights (and, yes, I’m kidding about Orcutt but serious about this week’s MTR being really good): […]

How US Energy Emissions Compare (It’s Not Pretty)

By Sarah Goodyear | Jul 2, 2007 | 2 Comments

This eye-opening map from the Sightline Institute’s blog uses US Department of Energy figures to demonstrate how individual states stack up against nations from around the world in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from energy use. The figures are especially astonishing when you look at the population comparisons (which can be found in spreadsheet form […]

Just What India Needs: The $3,000 Car

By Jason Varone | Jun 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

The Sierra Club points out that in India, there are currently about 7 cars per 1,000 persons (as compared to nearly 500 per 1,000 in the US). With the advent of the $3,000 car, that is surely about to change. The Independent’s Andrew Buncombe reports: If India’s roads seem cluttered and inadequate, things are set […]

Addicted To Oil: Ranking States’ Vulnerability

By Jason Varone | Jun 27, 2007 | 3 Comments

A new NRDC report ranks U.S. states on their level of oil vulnerability measured by how heavily each state’s citizens are affected by increases in oil prices. States are also ranked on their implementation of solutions to reduce oil dependence. The report found that while oil dependence affects all states, some are hit harder economically […]

Book Review: Twenty-Three Years to Save the Planet

By Aaron Donovan | Jun 25, 2007 | 8 Comments

When George Monbiot, the popular columnist for the UK’s Guardian newspaper, gets interested in something, he digs and digs until he’s found what he’s satisfied is the truth. Monbiot is interested in global warming, and presents in Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning (U.S. Edition: South End Press, May 2007) a heavily footnoted 215-page brisk and compelling case for why […]

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