Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Environment

Lithium Mining and the Hidden Environmental Costs 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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Four Reasons to Hold Your Applause For Automakers’ Big EV Promises

By Kea Wilson | Feb 3, 2021 | No Comments

General Motors aims to manufacture only electric vehicles by 2035 — but advocates are skeptical that the move will have much of a climate impact without a slate of accompanying policy changes.

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Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

By Kea Wilson | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

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.