Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Climate emergency

A Tesla driver parks in an unprotected bike lane. Image: Bike Lane Uprising

To Solve Climate Crisis, We Need to Drive Less

By Matthew Lewis | Aug 12, 2021 | No Comments

With all the gasoline vehicles still driving around for the next 15 to 20 years, EVs won’t be able to close the gap in pollution reduction fast enough. We’re out of time — unless we promote other ways of getting around.

Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On

By Jeff Wood | Aug 5, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Dr. V Kelly Turner, director of urban environment research at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation. We chat about how to think differently about urban heat, how to measure it properly, and how to regulate it.

Suburban Lifestyles Worsen Carbon Emissions

By Sabrina Zwick | Jul 12, 2021 | No Comments

Does a city dweller who eats at trendy restaurants every night generate more carbon emissions than a suburbanite with a backyard garden? The answer might surprise you.

Multi-State Climate Plan Fails To Please All Advocates

By Ethan Goffman | Jul 6, 2021 | No Comments

The latest version of a multistate plan to lower transportation emissions represents an improvement, but still doesn't go far enough on environmental-justice issues, some advocates say.

Image: Karlis Dambrans via Creative Commons

Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us

By Coby Lefkowitz | Jun 18, 2021 | No Comments

Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world.

This is the kind of landscape that lithium mining for electric car batteries might destroy. Image courtesy Protect Thacker Pass.

Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments

The Green New Deal is clearly better than our carbon-based catastrophic course. But it also depends on massive amounts of lithium — and extracting it will carry a big environmental cost of its own.

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