Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Air Quality

Report from Atlanta: Don’t Walk This Way

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 9, 2007 | 23 Comments

I can’t get behind Prevention Magazine’s ranking of New York as 39th among the nation’s most walkable cities. But after spending three days in Atlanta for a conference recently, I have no problem understanding why it rates 86th. Stuck, like most of the city’s legions of conventioneers, in the area around the Peachtree Center, I […]

Schumer & Clinton Backing Upstate NIMBY’s Against Wind Power

By Jason Varone | Feb 28, 2007 | 8 Comments

Newsday reports: A high-voltage transmission line running through Central New York could spur the creation of environmentally friendly wind farms across the state, according to Bill May, project manager for the Albany-based New York Regional Interconnect Inc., who hopes to build the line. However, there is intense opposition coming from many upstate residents. Perhaps that […]

Eyes on the Street: Snow Days

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 21, 2007 | 6 Comments

When there isn’t snow on the ground where does all the black stuff go? Photo courtesty of Gowanus Lounge.

Taxing Vehicles Based on Their Environmental Impact

By Jason Varone | Feb 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

The New Zealand Herald reports: Germany’s government plans to tax cars based on emissions instead of engine size to help tackle climate change, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said. Tiefensee told a news conference early Sunday that German and other European carmakers had to do more to protect the environment, after the head of the UN […]

Pedaling Protest Takes on Car Show

By Jason Varone | Feb 12, 2007 | 6 Comments

The Chicago Tribune reports: Dressed as polar bears and Santa Claus and towing signs that read "True Patriots Don’t Burn Oil" and "Be a Hero: Drive Less," a group of bicyclists gathered Saturday in front of McCormick Place to protest the Chicago Auto Show. "We feel there are enough cars in Chicago," said Dan […]

Gridlock Sam: Avert Climate Catastrophe, Ride a Vespa^®

By Aaron Naparstek | Feb 12, 2007 | 29 Comments

While Parisians are starting to complain that "an invasion of noisy scooters and motorcycles and a rise in accidents involving pedestrian and motorcyclists" is one of the "unintended consequences" of Mayor Bertrand Delanoe’s traffic reduction policies, "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz’s consulting firm just issued a report claiming that New York City could better meet its […]

Show More Stories