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PROP 2 PASSES: Check Out Which New Yorkers Care About Clean Air and Water — And Which Don’t
There are small pockets of the city where people don’t actually care whether their neighbors have access to clean air or water. Check out our detailed Proposition 2 map.
November 5, 2021
Advocates Demand Global Leaders Increase Bike Mode Share
Sustainable transportation advocates are urging world leaders at COP26 to commit to a global goal to increase cycling mode share — because if they don't, there is "no conceivable way" for them to meet the summit's climate goals.
November 4, 2021
What’s In (And Out Of) the New Reconciliation Bill For Sustainable Transport
Most programs favored by sustainable transportation advocates have survived negotiations over the massive social infrastructure package that's held up the country's transportation ambitions for months — though a few of them have gotten a little skinnier.
November 2, 2021
PROPS FOR PROP 2: Referendum Could Empower State’s Livable-Streets Advocates
Do you want a Constitutional right to breathe clean air? Then vote "yes" on this ballot proposal.
October 27, 2021
Kerry Warns Budget Bill Delay Will Hold Global Climate Goals Hostage
Centrist bickering over the size of the Democrats' budget reconciliation will have dire consequences for key international climate goals, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry warns — and sustainable transportation priorities will be dealt a particularly hard blow.
October 19, 2021
OPINION: E-Bikes Could Become a Weapon Against Climate Change
Following a summer filled with devastating hurricanes in the South, deadly flooding in the Northeast and raging wildfires in the West, it’s clearer than ever that we need to do everything in our power to fight climate change.
October 1, 2021
OPINION: Feds Must Invest in NY Subway, Not Roads, to Meet Climate Goals
Congressional legislation does virtually nothing to encourage other Americans to reduce their carbon output like transit-dependent, cramped-apartment New Yorkers.
August 31, 2021
Reconciliation Bill Will Go Big on EVs, But Schumer’s Numbers Don’t Meet Climate Goals
The massive reconciliation bill under consideration in Congress would fall short of achieving our greenhouse gas reduction target — and the climate wins it does achieve would come disproportionately from consumer incentives for electric vehicles, rather than by shifting drivers out of cars.
August 26, 2021
To Solve the Climate Crisis, We Need to Drive A Lot Less
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.
August 13, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On
This week we’re joined by Dr. V. Kelly Turner, director of urban environment research at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation, to talk about how to think differently about urban heat, how to measure it properly, and how to regulate it.
August 8, 2021
