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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
DEEP DIVE: Here’s Why Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
June 19, 2021
LaGuardia AirTrain Documents Raise Questions About Parking, Development
The Port Authority hasn't disclosed enough about ancillary plans around its AirTrain project, critics say.
April 21, 2021
How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
February 13, 2021
Lithium Mining and the Hidden Environmental Costs of EVs
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.
February 9, 2021
Four Reasons to Hold Your Applause For Automakers’ Big EV Promises
February 3, 2021
Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine
Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.
January 14, 2021
