Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Green New Deal

What An Ideal Green New Deal for Transportation Might Look Like

By Kea Wilson | Mar 22, 2022 | No Comments

A truly green new deal must focus on reducing the amount Americans drive, a new report argues — and doing so will take an unprecedented portfolio of investments into sustainable modes.

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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.

An illegally parked van in the Grand Street bike lane. File photo: Julianne Cuba

Mayor Wrong About Bill to Put $3 Surcharge on Non-Essential Amazon Orders: Pol

By Gersh Kuntzman | Dec 11, 2020 | No Comments

In his weekly "Ask the Mayor" segment on WNYC on Friday morning, Mayor de Blasio mischaracterized a Brooklyn Assembly Member's proposed bill to put a surcharge on non-essential online retail orders to curb pollution and road violence.

We can do better than tires and cones, America.

Federal Bill Seeks to Prioritize Pedestrians (Albeit A Tiny Bit More)

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jul 11, 2019 | 16 Comments

A new federal bill would mandate that 5 percent of all federal highway funds be diverted to "Complete Streets" to hopefully stem the blood tide of pedestrian deaths in this country.

New York as it was ... and as it will likely be.

Congestion Pricing IS New York’s Green New Deal

By Charles Komanoff and Jeff Blum | Mar 20, 2019 | 9 Comments

Here's another reason for fence-sitters to jump into the congestion pricing fray as the deal is being made in Albany in the next week.