Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

New Study Shows $56 Billion in Hidden Health Damage From Autos

By Elana Schor | Oct 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

Transportation’s effects on public health are rarely discussed by policy-makers, but they remain very real — and the National Research Council (NRC) put a number on them Monday, reporting that cars and trucks have about $56 billion in "hidden" health costs that are not reflected in the price of oil or electricity. Photo: MetroDCLiving.com In […]

CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles

By Matthew Roth | Oct 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Congress for the New Urbanism will meet in Portland, Oregon, in early November for the annual Project for Transportation Reform, a summit to further define emerging policies that embrace entire urban transportation networks, rather than disjointed transportation segments, and that seek to balance modal splits and reduce overall vehicular miles traveled (VMT). Summit attendees […]

Senate Climate Bill Released With Much Fanfare, Little Focus on Transport

By Elana Schor | Sep 30, 2009 | No Comments

Includes Provision That Would Allow NYC Hybrid Taxi Fleet Flanked by fellow Democrats, members of the military, and a crowd hoisting signs with buzzwords like "clean energy" and "green jobs," Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) today released the first draft of their legislation to curb U.S. emissions and combat climate change. Sens. […]

The Assumption of Inconvenience

By Ryan Avent | Sep 30, 2009 | 32 Comments

The secret of European eco-friendliness? Maybe not. Photo: romerican/Flickr Early this week, I noticed a number of my favorite bloggers linking to this Elisabeth Rosenthal essay at Environment 360, on the mysterious greenness of European nations. The average American, as it happens, produces about twice as much carbon dioxide each year as your typical resident […]

Report: 10 Percent Transit Growth Would Help Meet House Climate Target

By Elana Schor | Sep 22, 2009 | No Comments

Image: U.S. EIA via Climate Progress A 10 percent annual increase in U.S. transit ridership would reduce CO2 emissions by 180 million tons each year, taking the nation halfway to the target set by the House climate change bill within three years, according to a report [PDF] released today by Environment America and the Coalition […]

Did Bill Thompson Get a Copy of Today’s Fake Post? [Updated]

By Brad Aaron | Sep 21, 2009 | No Comments

The latest production of the Yes Men hit the streets and the Web today: an Onion-esque "Special Edition" of the New York Post devoted completely to climate change, released ahead of this week’s global summit at UN headquarters. Coming in at 32 pages in print, there’s a lot here to digest — including a fun […]

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