Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Today’s Headlines

President Trump’s latest budget cuts Amtrak funding by 50 percent and eliminates a loan program for clean vehicle manufacturers. It also includes $1 trillion for infrastructure, but with no way to pay for it. Democrats are unlikely to go along. (Reuters) A California judge declined to block a new state law that requires Uber and […]

Oil companies invented fake news, astroturfing and the modern public relations industry. They’ve known about climate change since the 1960s, but have been denying it publicly anyway. (Grist) States can’t depend on the federal government to pay for infrastructure as long as President Trump is in office, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and New […]

Sustainable transit is a great investment because it saves lives, saves time lost to sitting in traffic and saves the environment all at once. (The City Fix) Coronavirus is sowing confusion, fear and racism among Uber drivers. (Daily Beast) Thirty companies have burned through a combined $16 billion trying to develop self-driving cars (The Information). […]