Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Climate Change

Judge in Vermont Upholds California Emissions Standards

By Brad Aaron | | 7 Comments
  Detroit car makers lost another battle in their fight against stronger emissions regulations last week, this time in Vermont. The Burlington Free Press reports: In a major victory for states’ efforts to combat global warming, a U.S. District Court judge in Burlington ruled Wednesday that federal law does not bar Vermont from imposing tougher […]

World Cities Adding One Million People Every Week

By Jason Varone | | 2 Comments
Syndicated columnist Neal Peirce asks whether our planet will be able to absorb the population "mega-surge" currently underway in Africa, Asia and Latin America. From Common Dreams: The problem is that the global population base has increased so radically that even seemingly modest birthrates can have momentous consequences. Joel Cohen (head of the Laboratory of […]

Climate Change: It’s What’s for Dinner

By Brad Aaron | | 25 Comments
For years, animal rights and welfare groups have maintained that the factory farming of animals for human consumption wreaks havoc on the environment. Now that climate change has become a mainstream issue, they’re taking it up a notch. Bolstered by a recent United Nations report "stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions […]

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

By Glenn McAnanama | | 7 Comments
Congressional debate on climate change has revealed division among politicians on how to best regulate carbon emissions. From NPR’s Marketplace, we get a report on the sharp difference between leading Democrats in both houses, Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Rep. John Dingell (MI) Boxer is quoted as preferring cap and trade, which seems to be […]

Weiner on the Environment: Big Talk, Small Stick

By Glenn McAnanama | | 52 Comments
Where’s the beef? Under Rep. Anthony Weiner’s plan, vehicles, like the one above, would not be charged a fee to use New York City’s most heavily congested streets On Monday evening, just hours before the federal government’s announcement that it would give New York City $354.5 million to kick-start Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan, Rep. […]
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